The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Haryana government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a petition seeking an independent probe into the lynching of Junaid Khan, a Faridabad youth, in July 2017. The high court acted on the petition of Jalaluddin, father of Junaid, and sought responses from the CBI and the Haryana government by November 1. The petitioner father has stated that all the witnesses’ statements were deliberately distorted to introduce “ambiguity, discrepancies and contradictions” so as to benefit the accused. The stab injuries to two accompanying Junaid and his lynching was motivated by deep rooted communal hatred against the community of the victims, the petition said. The police deliberately acted with undue haste because the crime had attracted huge nationwide outcry, the petition said.

Source: Hindustan Times October 25, 2017 17:48 UTC