ALWAR: Intrigue hung heavy in Lalawandi village where 31-year-old Rakbar Khan was lynched in a farm in thick darkness on Saturday, the remains of killings are still too stark to miss any eye.
Khan and his friend Aslam had waded through muddy fields here late Friday night. His footsteps and pugmarks of two the cows he had purchased, wound through the narrow paths of sprawling fields.
A small portion of the field is dotted with uneven holes indicating signs of the struggle that ensued on Saturday night. The pugmarks and footprints intersect, according to locals it was this very location where the confrontation must have begun on the intervening nights of Friday and Saturday. Small make shifts pathways that cut through the fields are broken at many places, indicating how Khan was slammed on the ground and beaten up. The rains had lashed the fields last night, making the terrain impossible even to walk, the farmers said that even if Khan had attempted to run, he could not have managed to go very far.
The place where Khan was found unconscious has nothing but a five to six deep but small carters.
"I did not see or hear anything when I woke up in the morning. I saw dog squads and police teams wading through the mud," said Jitendra Singh, a local resident.
Habib Meo, a resident of a nearby village in Lalawandi, said that these things have become all the more common here. "A breaded man cannot cross a road with a cow here anymore," he said, adding that nobody has a right to kill anyone.
Since morning, the onlookers and farmers have been flocking the place in droves, enquiring each other about the incidents of the past night. "Ours is a sleepy town, the police teams came early in the morning following which we got to know about the entire incident," Singh said.
The field where Rakbar Khan was lynched in Lalawandi village on Friday night
