The Haryana Police on Monday announced Rs 2 lakh for any information that could lead to the person who stabbed a Muslim teen to death on a moving Delhi-Mathura train 11 days ago.
The police's admission that it still has no clue about the killer comes after last week's claims that it had identified the person who and some others had called Junaid Khan "anti-national and beef-eater" before lynching him.
The police had said that one of three men seen on a bike near a place where Junaid was thrown off the train was the alleged murderer, amid an outrage over a wave of attacks on people accused of eating beef or slaughtering cows. The police has so far arrested five persons for killing Junaid and wounding his two brothers and a friend as other passengers looked on.
No one has come forward to be a witness in the case.
The identity of the person providing information on the killer will be kept a secret, said a spokesperson for the Haryana Railway Police.
Protests over growing cases of cow vigilantism and mob frenzy prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and President Pranab Mukherjee two days later to urge people not to take law into their hands.
On June 22, the mob attacked Junaid, 16, his brothers Sakir, 22, and Hashim, 19, besides their friend Moin, 19, when they were going to their village Khandavali in Haryana's Ballabgarh after shopping for Eid in Delhi.
Hashim has reportedly told the police that the killer had almost one-foot-long knife-like thing, which was sharp at both ends. The victims also had their skull caps removed and thrown around, Hashim has said.
Initial investigations have found that the mob boarded the train between Okhla and Tughlakabad railway stations in Delhi. Trains on this stretch crawl because both flanks are heavily encroached. The police are combing nearby slum clusters to nab the main accused.
On Monday last, villagers in Khandavali shunned Eid celebrations and tied black bands on their arms to protest the lynching, demanding justice for Junaid and other victims.
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