Suleiman the father of Khan is seeking for justice and said that the culprits should be arrested soon.
Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje said that the incident is condemnable and strictest possible action shall be taken against the perpetrators. State Home Minister, G. C. Kataria also said the government will take strict action against those responsible.
In September, the Rajasthan police had given a
clean chit to the six people named in the Pehlu Khan lynching incident when a dairy farmer in his fifties, was brutally beaten to death by cow vigilantes in Alwar district. Khan and at least four others were injured when a mob had attacked nearly 15 persons hailing from Haryana, while transporting cows in vehicles on the Behror highway in Alwar district on 5 April. Following this, Khan’s family had sought a court-monitored probe into the killing and said the case must be shifted out of the state. This incident comes just over a year after the
Pehlu Khan incident.
In November, another similar incident occured when cow vigilantes beat up and shot two Muslim youths in Fahari village near Govindh Gadh in Alwar district, when they were transporting cows from Mewat in Haryana to Bharatpur in Rajasthan. One of the two victims, identified as Ummar Khan, died in the attack.
The Friday’s incident took place on the same day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged states to take strict actions against those involved in
mob lynching and rapes.
However, clear details on the motive are not available.
