Rakbar had succumbed to his injuries after he was thrashed by an extremist mob in Rajasthn’s Alwar in July 2018 while he and his friend Aslam were transporting cows

Team Clarion

NEW DELHI — A court in Rajasthan’s Alwar district has set the Rakbar Khan lynching case for final hearing on March 6.  The court, according to Qasim Khan who is representing Rakbar’s mother, on Monday denied further argument in the case and scheduled the final hearing for March 6.

The court also appointed a new prosecutor in view of the complaints of bias by Rakbar’s family last week. They had said in an application to the Alwar’s District and Sessions Judge Sangeeta Sharma that the presiding office was favouring the accused . The court, however, rejected the demand for transfer of the case.

Rakbar was thrashed by an extremist mob in Alwar in July 2018 when he and his friend Aslam were transporting cows through a forest. Aslam managed to escape but Rakbar faced the wrath of the mob. He died of injuries while in police custody.

A police official was suspended and four others transferred for dereliction of duties after admitting that there was delay in taking injured Rakbar to hospital. The police arrested four accused– Dharmendra Yaday (27), Naresh Kumar (28), Paramjit Singh (31) and Vijay Kumar (36) — all residents of Alwar’s Lalawandi village — in the case.