Ten years.
Ten whole years since a mob dragged Mohammad Akhlaq out of his home in Dadri, beat him to death with bricks and rods because someone spread the lie that he had beef in his fridge. Forensic tests later proved it was mutton. But Akhlaq was already dead, his son Danish was fighting for life, and the country was burning with shame.
The mob was led by the son and nephew of a local BJP leader.
They were arrested, charged with murder, then quietly released on bail.
For a decade, the trial crawled at a snail’s pace, prosecution witnesses barely began to be examined, and the killers walked free among us.
And now, in 2025, the BJP government of Uttar Pradesh wakes up and decides: “Let’s just drop the entire case.”
An application under Section 321 CrPC has been filed to withdraw the murder prosecution. The reasons? “Inconsistent statements,” “no sharp weapons recovered,” “no prior enmity.”
The same tired excuses that courts routinely reject in every mob-lynching trial. These are not legal grounds; they are political cover.
This is not an oversight. This is not incompetence.
This is a blatant attempt to bury justice because the accused have the right political connections and the victims are from the “wrong” faith.
The court is not bound to accept this shameful withdrawal. The law is crystal clear.
But will the judge dare to stand up to a government that has spent years intimidating the judiciary, transferring “inconvenient” judges, and turning courts into extensions of the ruling party?
We saw what happened at the Supreme Court level, collegium battles, midnight transfers, judges afraid to even take up certain cases.
If the highest court can be brought to its knees, what chance does a district judge in Gautam Buddh Nagar have?
Mohammad Akhlaq was murdered twice:
Once by a hate-drunk mob in 2015.
And again in 2025 by a government that has decided his life was worth nothing.
If this withdrawal is allowed, every future lynching will carry a silent footnote: “Kill now, we will clean it up later.” Share this if your blood is still capable of boiling.
Tag every judge, every lawyer, every citizen who still believes India is a country of laws, not of lynch mobs and their political godfathers.
