Translations:2017 Chopra lynching/16/en
The district superintendent of police, Amit Kumar Bharat Rathod, said the victims had past records of cattle theft and that raids were being conducted; an official said an impartial inquiry had been ordered. Police arrested three local men.[1] The case was registered under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rather than Section 302 (murder). The three arrested men were released on bail about two weeks later.[2][3] As of January 2018, about six months after the killings, police had not filed a chargesheet. The families wrote to the sub-divisional officer seeking a CBI or CID inquiry.[2][3] No later information on the case was found in the sources consulted.