The charges against two of his sons and the driver of the vehicle in which the animals were being ferried have also been quashed, news agency ANI reported.
Speaking of Pehlu Khan case, Justice Chandrachud said this was one of the great torments of being a judge because you've to decide on basis of evidence, as it stands and then you find that police investigation has been so woefully inadequate that it's going to result in an acquittal."
Irshad, the elder son of Pehlu Khan, said that the recent verdict by a district court -- acquitting all six accused in the 2017 lynching case -- had left them disappointed.
In his petition, the complainant referred to a tweet by the Congress leader which, he claimed, held the trial court in contempt and was a conspiracy to spread communal hatred.
The 55-year-old dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, a native of Nuh village in Haryana, was allegedly beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes near Behror in Rajasthan on the Delhi-Alwar highway on April 1, 2017
In spite of the Supreme Court calling lynching an 'epidemic', its guidelines have been hardly implemented by state governments. This has resulted in extreme manipulation and dubious investigations.
Who killed you Pehlu Khan? In this age of post truth, we ask the dead who killed them. And we can also create a theory that Pehlu Khan lynched himself. And the times that we live in, it will be believed.
_100_140.jpg "On India's 73rd Independence Day, A Letter to Pehlu Khan")
