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Location: Dadri, UP
Case: Yusuf Saifi, the lawyer of Akhlaq’s family, said that the trial has been going on
for about four years, charges have not been framed yet (Newslaundry inquiry)
Reason: A group of self-proclaimed gau rakshaks threw petrol bombs at Bhat while
Case status: 7 people were arrested in connection with the case; 5 of them were
booked under the Public Safety Act (as of October 2015) (The Quint)
Location: Sarahan, HP
Case status: 4 of Noman’s associates were booked under various sections of Cruelty
Against Animal Act; 12 persons accused of the lynching were arrested on Oct 29,
Reason: attacked and lynched while the victims were on their way to a cattle fair with
their oxen
Case status: 8 out of 12 accused persons were convicted for murder on Dec 19,
2018 by a Jharkhand court; one Vinod Prajapati- a local leader of the BJP who was
named as the prime accused in one of the three FIRs, is still absconding (Newsclick,
Location: Harindanga, WB
Case status: FIR was lodged naming 10 accused; TMC leader Tapas Mullick was
arrested and charged with murder and assault (The Quint); ‘Assailants’ were out on
Case Status: All 8 accused in the case were granted bail by the Gujarat High Court
Case status: 6 out of 9 accused in the case were granted bail by a local court in
Alwar on August 14, 2019; A detailed account is given in the story cited of how the
case fell apart because of three investigating officers, two sets of doctors with
differing medical opinions, two videos whose source remained suspect and two
Case status: 2 persons were arrested and a case of murder was registered (The
Quint)
Case status: 3 men arrested for the lynching were released on bail after spending 15
imprisonment for the murder; but later 10 were out on bail, 1 is still in jail; challenge
Location: Jalpaiguri, WB
Case status: Police registered an FIR in the case, and 1 of the suspects was
detained; the police invoked section 147 of the Indian Penal Code that deals with
punishment for rioting, section 302 for murder, section 307 for an attempt to murder
and section 291 for causing the disappearance of evidence of an offence or giving
Location: Satna, MP
Case Status: Police arrested 4 men in connection with the case (The Times of India,
Case Status: Police arrested 4 persons in connection with the case and the 4
accused have been booked under relevant sections of the IPC pertaining to murder
Location: Hapur, UP
Latest media report on the case status: Police arrested 2 men — Yudhishtir Singh
and Rakesh Sisodia — on the charge of murder. Sisodia, the main accused, was let
out on bail just a few days later. But in a sting video, he was seen boasting of killing
Qasim for alleged cow slaughter. On Apr 8, 2019, SC asked the UP government to
file a fresh status report terming the incident ‘barbaric’ (Newsclick, April 13, 2019)
Case status: The fourth accused, Vijay Kumar, was arrested in connection with the
case on August 22, 2019. The fifth accused, Naval Kishore, was still absconding,
police said. The police had already arrested 3 other accused in connection with the
case and filed a charge sheet against them. (The New Indian Express, August 23,
2019)
18) Name: Unidentified person
Case status: Police filed an FIR against 3 villagers who beat the boy to death, 1 man
Case status: Police had found 15 people to be involved in the incident, they arrested
12 people in the next two days (The Business Standard, August 18, 2018)
Location: Auraiya, UP
Case status: The state police later arrested 5 men from the adjoining 'kasaayi
mohalla' (butchers' colony). The arrested persons said they had carried out the
barbaric murders in revenge as the sadhus had recently tipped off the police about
Location: Bareilly, UP
Case status: Police arrested 7 people in connection with the case (The Hindustan
Location: Bulandshahr, UP
Case status: Victim’s brother-in-law lodged an FIR; 2 constables and the driver of a
Police Control Room (PCR) van were suspended on account of their apathy
Location: Bulandshahr, UP
Reason: Shot dead while dealing with a mob which had gathered over the discovery
of cow carcasses
Case Status: 38 people were named in the charge sheet, 5 of them are in jail
currently; disappointed with the bails of Yogesh Raj and Shikhar Agarwal- allegedly
the main instigator- the family filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court
last month. The petition is likely to come up for hearing in January next year
on January 04, 2019 said that the Superintendent of Police of Araria had been asked
to submit a detailed report on the lynching. (The Times of India, January 04, 2019)
Case status: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has issued a
Bovine Animal Prohibition of Slaughter Act, 2005, against the deceased and 3
The second FIR was registered on the basis of the statements of the victims against
7 named accused and several others under several provisions of the IPC, including
provoke breach of the peace and rioting. (The Hindustan Times, May 10, 2019)
Case Status: Police said a case will be registered once the post-mortem was
Case status: 3 men were arrested on the basis of an FIR filed by the families; the
police lodged a case of murder against some named and some unidentified villagers
Case status: Police registered an FIR against 4 named persons and around
one-and-half-dozen unnamed persons in connection with the case; police also took a
few suspects to interrogate in connection with the case; trial is yet to begin in a local