GREATER NOIDA: A court in UP's Greater Noida on Tuesday postponed the commencement of day-to-day hearings in the high-profile Akhlaq lynching case due to the absence of a key prosecution witness.
The daily hearing, scheduled to begin on January 6 at the Surajpur court, could not proceed as the main witness failed to appear. The court has now fixed January 8 as the next date of hearing and directed that the witness be produced under police protection.
Yusuf Saifi, advocate representing Akhlaq’s family, said that the witness could not attend the proceedings as a family member had passed away on Sunday.