Akhlaq Court ruling welcome

The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but it is heartening to note that they do grind.

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A decade after Mohammed Akhlaq was beaten to death by a mob, allegedly, for storing beef in his home at Bisara village in Dadri, a fast-track court in Surajpur has rejected as baseless the Uttar Pradesh government's plea to drop the prosecution case against all those accused of the lynching. The brutal nature of the killing sent shockwaves in the country. Akhlaq and his son Danish were dragged out of their house and beaten by a mob with lathis and sticks in September 2015 after an announcement was made at the local temple that he had slaughtered a calf. Akhlaq succumbed to his injuries in hospital, while Danish underwent extensive treatment for his critical injuries for several months. More shocking was the silence of the government on the issue. The Akhlaq case proved to be a defining mom