Of the 69 cases decided by the Nuh district and sessions court under Haryana’s law against cow slaughter in the second half of 2022, only four have ended in conviction, an acquittal rate of 94%.
Nuh, a district predominantly populated by Meo Muslims, has seen several cases of lynching and violence against local residents over allegations of cow slaughter during the past decade.
However, he added that the district police had studied the bail orders and judgements in detail to fix the loopholes and a Standard Operating Procedure had been released to investigating officers last April, improving the quality of charge-sheets. “As a result, 112 out of 294 anticipatory bail applications moved before the lower court last year (Jan-Dec 2022) were rejected, and around 40% such applications were rejected by the High Court as well. The conviction rate will show a jump in two years time once these cases are decided. In another blow to the criminals, the police ensured that 83 of the 139 vehicles seized were not released,” he said.
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