Rajasthan: The 4-member panel which was appointed to investigate into the death of Rakbar Khan admitted on Monday that there had been lapses on the part of the police.
Inspector general of police (law and order) NRK Reddy, who heads the probe committee while admitting that there was some error in judgment noted a time lapse of three hours and said that had the police responded more efficiently the incident could have been avoided.
He informed that an assistant sub-inspector – Mohan Singh – has been suspended, while three constables were transferred to the Alwar police lines in this connection.
Akbar alias Rakbar was lynched on Friday night on suspicion of being a cow smuggler in Alwar.
Quoting an eyewitness the Indian Express has reported that the police took over two and a half hours to get Akbar to a hospital barely 4 km away from the lynching spot. The police arranged for vehicles to take the seized cows to a shelter, washed Akbar and even stopped for tea before getting him to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.