Alwar | The Rajasthan Police is under severe criticism in the manner in which it handled the Alwar Mob Lynching case. According to reports, the police took more than 3 hours to take the victim (Akbar Khan) to the nearest Community Health Centre (CHC) in Ramgarh which was nearly 6 km from the place of incident.
However, the police preferred to relocate the two cows recovered from the victim. The cows were taken to a gaushala 10km away from the incident spot, a one hour before Akbar Khan was taken to hospitalised.
According to the Health Centre’s OPD register, Khan was brought to the center at around 4 am. But the FIR states that the Police were informed about the attack on Akbar Khan at 12.41 by a ‘gau rakshak’, Naval Kishore Sharma, chief of VHP’s Gau Raksha cell in Ramgarh.
A Local eyewitness told media, police got that call from eyewitnesses, they took him along in their jeep and went to the spot, where they collected the victim Rakbar, washed him, stopped to have tea, got his clothes changed at the police station, before taking him to the Ramgarh CHC, where he was declared dead on arrival.
“Some local youths called me after midnight but my phone was on mute. So they called my nephew who woke me up and told me that villagers had caught a cow smuggler and asked me to call the police. So I called the police at 12.41 am. I live close to the police station and barely took five minutes to get there, and then I waited another 5-10 minutes for the police jeep to arrive. We were at the spot at 1.15 or 1.20 am,” the eyewitness added.
The eyewitness further added that they found Rakbar lying in mud, with two cows tied to a tree nearby. Some of the villagers had run away after seeing the police jeep. “However, some had stayed back. I don’t want to disclose their names. With their help, we carried Rakbar to the road from the fields,” he says.
“They took Rakbar in the police jeep and headed to where the homes were in the village, about 2.2 kilometres away. There, the police arranged for a three-wheeler to load the two cows,” he added.
Earlier on Saturday, a man was allegedly lynched by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
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