Alwar Lynching: After taking 3 hours to get victim to hospital, thana in-charge and three constables suspended

Moving quickly, the local administration has fired thana in-charge and 3 constables in Alwar lynching case, DNA has learned. The police are facing charges of not taking the injured victim Akbar Khan to the hospital for several hours and also allegedly beating him in custody.

Reacting, NRK Reddy, Special DG said: “We have no info yet of victim being thrashed in custody but yes prima facie we have found that there was indeed an error in judgement in deciding what was important at that point.”

At a time when the Alwar police is facing flaks for not timely attending the lynching victim, the kin of the deceased on Monday said they don’t doubt the police.

Thana incharge and 3 constables suspended in #AlwarLynching case
They face charges of not taking the injured victim #AkbarKhan to the hospital for several hours and also beating him in #custody

Govt had set up high level body of cops to probe

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"We do not doubt the police at all. We want justice and severe punishment should be given to those who killed him (Akbar)," Ilyas Khan, brother of Alwar lynching case victim Rakbar told ANI.

28-year-old Rakbar Khan was allegedly beaten to death by an agitated mob on suspicions of cow smuggling in Alwar district in the intervening night of July 20-21.

According to media reports, the Alwar police took three hours to get the victim to a hospital which was only six km away.

The police also allegedly on the way to hospital stopped to drop the cows to a shelter.

Meanwhile, Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) OP Galhotra has ordered a team of senior police officials to investigate the case.

The DGP has also asked senior police officials to submit a report in the connection.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court today said that it will hear a plea seeking contempt action against three states- Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh government in connection with Alwar lynching incident on August 20.

The court will also hear a plea filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla in the case on the same date.

As of now, two people have been arrested in the case.

The Congress and the BJP were today locked in a bitter slugfest over the Alwar lynching case with Rahul Gandhi alleging hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "brutal" 'New India' and two union ministers accusing the opposition leader of being a "merchant of hate" and indulging in "vulture politics".

The fresh wordy duel between the two rival parties broke out after the Congress president cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar in Rajasthan took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute.

The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in Rajasthan's Alwar district Friday night by a group of people who accused him of smuggling cows.

"Policemen in #Alwar took 3 hrs to get a dying Rakbar Khan, the victim of a lynch mob, to a hospital just 6 KM away. Why? They took a tea-break enroute," Gandhi said on Twitter.

"This is Modi's brutal 'New India' where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die," he said.

Khan and his friend Aslam were taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forested area near Lalawandi in Alwar district last week when five men attacked them. Three people have been arrested.

The media report cited by Gandhi claimed that the policemen stopped for tea and took the cows to a shelter before taking Khan to the hospital.

Gandhi's attack on Modi sparked an angry response from two union ministers--Piyush Goyal and Smriti Irani.

"Stop jumping with joy every time a crime happens, Mr Rahul Gandhi. The state has already assured strict and prompt action. You divide the society in every manner possible for electoral gains and then shed crocodile tears. Enough is enough. You are a MERCHANT OF HATE," Goyal tweeted.

Goyal's remark echoed the attack on Modi by Sonia Gandhi during the 2007 Gujarat Assembly poll campaign when the then Congress President used the phrase 'maut ka saudagar' ('merchant of death') to target the then chief minister of the western state.

Irani accused Gandhi of doing "vulture politics" and claimed that not a single instance goes by where he doesn't attempt to rupture social bonds for electoral gains.

"Rahul Gandhi's family presided over the worst form of hate in 1984, Bhagalpur, Nellie and Many other instances. It is shameful that he is doing the same through vulture politics," she tweeted.

With inputs from PTI