The Allahabad high court on Friday issued stay orders on the arrest of Dadri lynching victim Mohammad Ikhlaq’s family for alleged cow slaughter.
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The court was hearing a petition filed by Jaan Mohammed and others where they claimed they had been falsely framed, media reported.
A division bench comprising Justices Ramesh Sinha and PC Tripathi, however, refused to grant relief to Akhlaq’s brother Jaan Mohammed, who was among the six persons named in the FIR lodged following a direction issued to the effect last month by a Surajpur district court.
Earlier Uttar Pradesh police had registered an FIR against Mohammad Akhlaq’s family for cow slaughter.
Akhlaq was brutally killed past year in September by members of right-wing Hindutva forces on the rumours that the victim had eaten and stored beef in his house.
A mob had lynched 52-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq and injured his son Danish after dragging them out of their home in Bisahda on September 28, 2015, following rumours they had slaughtered a cow and consumed beef.
The basis of the FIR against Akhlaq’s family, the forensic report of the Mathura lab declaring the meat to be beef, was obtained in a suspicious manner, said Mr. Naqvi, highlighting several “points of manipulation and tampering with the meat” and “loopholes” in the manner the forensic of the meat was conducted by the authorities. Later, a villager saw Akhlaq holding down the calf while his brother killed it, the petition said.
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The family had moved the Allahabad High Court against a recent court order directing a police case be filed against them for storing and consuming beef.
