Rakbar Khan

Alwar lynching case: BJP caught between pushing development agenda and playing to the tunes of its voter base

It is not very tough to see that the BJP is caught in a cleft stick, trying to navigate between its growth agenda and a nativist, obscurantist, divisive and exclusionary one

Alwar lynching: NHRC takes suo motu cognisance of Rakbar Khan's killing, issues notice to Rajasthan government

The National Human Rights Commission on Thursday sent a notice to the Rajasthan government over the death of a 28-year-old man in Alwar district

Lynching cases in India: Politicians' inaction and silence has turned peaceful symbol like the cow into cause of illogical brutality

The cold-blooded murder of Rakbar Khan, absurdly, has been made secondary by some political leaders to the clarion call of saving cows.

Alwar lynching victim Rakbar Khan leaves behind family of eight, children who ask where their next meal will come from

A pall of gloom descended on the two-room red brick house at Kolgaon village of Haryana's Mewat district, as news spread of Rakbar Khan's lynching by an angry mob in Rajasthan's Alwar

Four assaulted by mob for 'smuggling' cattle in Uttar Pradesh's Nagla Mandhata village, say police

At least four alleged cattle smugglers transporting a dead buffalo were assaulted by a mob here in the early hours, the police said.

Alwar lynching: Token administrative action, diktats futile; India's failing law enforcement apparatus needs overhaul

In horrible lynching incidents like that in Alwar, one thing emerges with abundant clarity: no diktats from SC and no hurried deference from govt can help.

Alwar lynching: State home minister says evidence points to custodial death but case timeline raises doubts

A comparison of timeline of events in Alwar lynching presented by eyewitness and the Rakbar Khan's colleague suggest that the eyewitness and police may have known about them even before Rakbar and Aslam had reached Lalawandi village

Alwar lynching case: BJP MLA alleges lower rank cops being targeted to shield senior officers, demands judicial enquiry

BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja on Tuesday said that lower rank policemen were being targeted to shield senior officers in the case of alleged lynching of 28-year-old Rakbar in Alwar and demanded a judicial inquiry into the case.

Alwar mob lynching: Third accused arrested; victim's autopsy report reveals fractured ribs, broken wrist

A day after two accused were arrested in the lynching of Rakbar Khan, on Sunday police held the third accused in the case, media reports said.

Alwar lynching case: Police took cows to shelter, stopped for tea before taking victim to hospital, say reports

Soon after the Rajasthan lynching case, questions have been raised on how there was a three-and-a-half hour delay on the part of the police in bringing victim Rakbar Khan to the hospital, media reports said.