The sons and another relative of the 55-year-old dairy farmer, who was beaten to death by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar in April 2017, will move a court seeking quashing of the charge sheet filed against them for alleged cow smuggling. They have maintained they were not transporting cattle to Haryana when Pehlu Khan, the dairy farmer, was thrashed to death. The Rajasthan police registered a case against Pehlu Khan, Irshad, 25, Arif, 22, and Khan Mohammad, 55, under different sections of the Rajasthan Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Slaughter and Regulation of Temporary Migration or Export) Act, 1995. On December 30, 2018, Alwar police completed the investigation in the case and charged Irshad and Arif with cattle smuggling. Alwar police superintendent Deshmukh Paris Anil said the file of the case was in court and he was unaware of the statement.

Source: Hindustan Times July 02, 2019 00:00 UTC