{"id":285830,"date":"2018-03-22T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285830"},"modified":"2018-03-22T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:04:08","slug":"lifer-to-11-gau-rakshaks-in-jharkhand-lynching-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lifer-to-11-gau-rakshaks-in-jharkhand-lynching-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifer to 11 gau rakshaks in Jharkhand lynching case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/images-11.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285831 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/images-11-300x209.jpeg\" alt=\"images (11)\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" data-id=\"285831\" \/><\/a>In first sentencing on a lynching case, a Special Fast Track court in Ramgarh, Jharkhand, on March 21 awarded life imprisonment to 11 of 12 cow vigilantes for &#8216;beating to death&#8217; a meat trader Alimuddin Ansari in June last year. However, the court has deferred its decision on 12th convict who is said to be a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prosecution says that the 12th convict should be treated as an adult although he is in between the age of 16 and 18.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 11 accused persons were identified as Santosh Singh, Deepak Mishra, Vicky Saw, Sikandar Ram, Uttam Ram, Vikram Prasad, Raju Kumar, Rohit Thakur, Chottu Verma, Kapil Thakur and a local BJP leader Nityanand Mahto.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 16, the court of the additional district judge-II of Ramgarh Om Prakash had held all the accused persons guilty under various sections of Indian Penal Code, including 302 (murder). They were accused of lynching a meat trader Alimuddin Ansari alias Asgar Ali at Bazartand locality in Ramgarh on June 29, 2017.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBesides, sentencing them for life term the court has also slapped a fine of \u20b92,000 on each the accused,\u201d said additional public prosecutor Sushil Kumar Shukla.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier State government had requested the Jharkhand High Court to constitute a special fast track court for a speedy trial of the case.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 29, 2017, Alimuddin Ansari, 55, was beaten to death by a mob led by members of a local gau raksha samiti, who had intercepted his van in which he was carrying beef. The mob had also set his vehicle ablaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In first sentencing on a lynching case, a Special Fast Track court in Ramgarh, Jharkhand, on March 21 awarded life imprisonment to 11 of 12 cow vigilantes for &#8216;beating to death&#8217; a meat trader Alimuddin Ansari in June last year. However, the court has deferred its decision on 12th convict who is said to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[954,955,956,957,958,959,960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}