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.
Pehlu Khan, 55, was beaten to death in Alwar, Rajasthan, by Gau Rakshaks in April 2017.
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
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