The Rajasthan High Court has summoned the six accused persons in the lynching and murder of Pehlu Khan in Rajasthan in 2017, who were acquitted by a trial court in 2019 of the nine accused in total. The summon was issued after the court admitted a plea by the deceased’s kin and clubbed it with the state government’s appeal against the Alwar court’s decision.

The court has issued “bailable warrants against the accused-respondents to secure their presence before this court in the sum of Rs. 10,000, returnable within a period of eight weeks”. Pehlu Khan was a dairy farmer who was lynched in Alwar following a mob’s “suspicions” that he was transporting cattle for slaughter. The lower court had criticised the Rajasthan Police’s investigation and acquitted six of the nine accused for lack of evidence.