Bhopal, July 3 -- The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered protection for Additional District and Sessions Judge Tabassum Khan, posted in Narmadapuram district, as she faced threats after passing a conviction order in a 2022 mob lynching case.

On June 12, Judge Tabassum Khan sentenced 14 accused to life imprisonment for the lynching of a man who was beaten to death on August 3, 2022, on suspicion of cow smuggling. Following the verdict, the woman judge was facing constant threats.

While hearing a suo motu petition related to the security of judicial officers in the state, a division bench of Justice Vivek Agarwal and Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh on Wednesday observed that it was brought to their notice that one of the Judicial Officer...