J aan Mohammad was walking in the Surajpur Court corridor when he heard something that left him in disbelief. It was the chatter in the courtroom corridors first, then came a WhatsApp forward at 4pm that made his worst fears true. The Uttar Pradesh government had filed a withdrawal application in the 10-year-old Akhlaq Ahmed lynching case. Panicked, he called his lawyer. But even he didn’t have any information.

Mohammad, 52, is Akhlaq’s younger brother.

“I have spent the entire weekend in fear, I spent my entire life fighting for my brother, to get him justice, what if they take the case back?” Jaan Mohammad said. “Only a few have shown the courage to fight the powerful, we were among them.” Show Full Article

Mohammad Akhlaq was killed by a mob in 2015 in his Greater Noida village Dadr

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