Translations:Lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq/16/en
The first information report was registered at Jarcha police station on the complaint of Akhlaq's wife, under Indian Penal Code sections including 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 147–149 (rioting and unlawful assembly).[1] Police filed a chargesheet on 22 December 2015.[2] Reported numbers of accused vary: The Quint reported in 2017 that 20 people, two of them minors, had been arrested, while later reports put the number of accused at 18, including three who were juveniles at the time.[3][4][5] One accused died in custody in October 2016; officials attributed the death to illness, while other accused alleged torture.[6][2]
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