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Junaid lynching case: SC seeks response from Centre and Haryana on plea seeking CBI probe

It has also stopped trial court hearing.

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Supreme Court on Monday sought response  from Centre and Haryana on a plea seeking CBI probe into Junaid  lynching case. It stayed HC order refusing CBI probe on plea of victim's father. The apex court has also stayed trial in the case in Faridabad court till further order.

SC asked the state and centre to file a detailed report in connection with the Junaid lynching case which made the headlines last year. SC said that it would examine if a CBI probe is needed in the case. 

Junaid's father has challenged the Punjab and Haryana High Court's November 27 last year order, refusing a CBI probe into the matter, and sought that the accused be booked under offences of hate crimes.

SC bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and Mohan Shantanagoudar heard the case. The plea was filed by Junaid Khan's father Jalaluddin. Last year, on June 22, Junaid was lynched and stabbed to death on a Mathura-bound train after an argument broke out. 

The accused, Naresh Kumar had 'confessed' to having stabbed the victim but insisted that the murder was not related to the beef issue. Naresh Kumar, a resident of Palwal in Haryana, was working as a security guard in a Delhi firm. The fight between the victim and his brothers and the accused in the train started at Okhla railway station in Delhi while the stabbing took place at a station Ballabgarh onwards.

Junaid was stabbed to death while his brothers, Hashim and Sakir, were injured by a mob which also allegedly hurled communal slurs against them. His brothers had claimed the attackers had taunted and repeatedly called them 'anti-nationals' and 'beef eaters'. They were going back from Delhi after doing Eid shopping. 

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