JAIPUR ALWAR: The Juvenile Justice Board in Alwar on Friday sentenced the two minors convicted a week ago in Pehlu Khan mob lynching case to three years' detention each at a juvenile correctional facility. This is the first sentencing in the case.

The minors have been sentenced on the basis of photographic and video evidence collected during investigations.

A total of nine people, including the two minors, had been accused for lynching the dairy farmer with six being acquitted by a trial court later. A seventh person had claimed to be a minor, but the JJB found him to be an adult. His trial is going on at a Behror court.

The JJB also rejected the minors' application to suspend the sentence. Defence lawyer Adarsh Kumar Yadav told TOI, "The Board had the power to suspend the sentence, but it rejected the application. We do not agree with the verdict and will appeal against it in the coming week."

Pehlu Khan (55), a dairy farmer from Haryana's Nuh district, his two sons and some others were intercepted and attacked by cow vigilantes near Behror on April 1, 2017. Pehlu succumbed to his injuries three days later at a hospital in Alwar. Seven cases had been registered in the matter, including one against Pehlu and his sons for transporting cattle and against the mob for lynching him .

The families of the accused minors expressed their unhappiness over the decision. "Six of the accused have been acquitted, but my son, who was going to give a practical exam and was not part or present at the time of lynching, has been convicted. He was unnecessarily made part of the case," said the parent of one.



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