The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed trial court proceedings in the alleged lynching of 17-year-old Junaid Khan and issued notice to the Haryana government and the CBI on a plea for a probe by the agency, The Tribune reported. The Bench of Justices Mahesh Grover and Raj Shekhar Attri fixed January 11 for the next hearing.
The petition had been made by Junaid’s father Jalaluddin, after a single judge recently dismissed his earlier plea for a CBI probe into the case. Junaid was allegedly stabbed by a mob which also hurled communal slurs at him on a Mathura-bound train this June.
