COURT AWARDS LIFER TO 30 IN SHO PHOOL MOHAMMAD MURDER CASE

Sawai Madhopur: A special court in Sawai Madhopur district on Friday sentenced life imprisonment to 30 people in the 2011 sensational Phool Mohammad murder case. The court, hearing the case probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), had on Wednesday convicted 30 people, including former Deputy Superintendent of Police Mahendra Singh, and acquitted 49. “The court had convicted 30 people, including the then DSP, in the case. While pronouncing the sentence on Friday, all of them were given life imprisonment and different fines under different sections,” said CBI lawyer Sridas Singh. Mohammad had gone to Surwal village where a man had climbed on a water tank over alleged police inaction in a murder case. The stone pelting there rendered SHO Phool Mohammad unconscious and the mob set the vehicle on fire, burning him alive. After the incident, the state government had given Mohammad the status of a martyr and the investigation of the case was also handed over to the CBI.