Cow vigilantes booked under new lynching law of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Faridabad: Haryana Police has invoked three sections, including mob lynching, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in its charge sheet filed against the five cow vigilantes who allegedly shot dead a student here, mistaking him for a cattle smuggler, officials said.

On August 23, Aryan Mishra, 20, and his friends, Shanky and Harshit were in a car when the accused - Saurabh, Anil Kaushik, Varun, Krishna and Adesh - began following them on the Delhi-Agra National Highway as they had received information that some suspected cattle smugglers in two SUVs were doing recce in the city.

When the accused asked the victim to stop the car, the driver accelerated, following which they opened fire and Mishra was shot dead. All the accused were arrested on August 28.