The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected the bail application of one of the accused in the mob lynching of 23-year-old Muslim man during a cricket match in Gujarat’s Anand district.
A bench comprising justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed the plea, noting that a similar request by a co-accused had already been turned down earlier so that the bench refused to entertain the petitioner’s plea at this stage.
The bail applicant had earlier sought relief from the Gujarat High Court, which refused to grant bail citing the severity of the offence and the specific role attributed to the accused, Kiran alias Holo Mafatbhai Parmar.
According to the High Court, the accused held Salman Vohra by the neck while brutally assaulting him to prevent escape, allowing the others to inflict fatal injuries.
The High Court observed that the accused’s actions demonstrated a shared intent, stating that “the said overt act on the part of applicant-accused is nothing but sharing common intention,” as they were “armed with deadly weapons and inflicted injury to the victim.”
The court further noted that “considering indiscriminate blows on the dead body of deceased, prima facie, involvement of applicant is found and corresponding injury on dead body is also found.”
The incident took place in June 2024, when Salman Vohra, a 23-year-old Muslim man, had travelled with two friends to Chikhodara village to attend a cricket tournament.
According to reports, an argument broke out between Vohra’s friends and a group of local men and when Vohra intervened in an attempt to mitigate the situation, he was attacked with sticks and cricket bats and given knife blows, resulting in his death.
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