Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered protection for Additional District and Sessions Judge Tabassum Khan after she received threats following a conviction in a 2022 mob lynching case. Judge Khan sentenced 14 individuals to life imprisonment for a lynching motivated by cow smuggling suspicions. The court deemed the threats serious, impacting judicial independence, and directed police to identify and act against those responsible.

Alleged social media posts threatened violence against the judge if the 14 convicts accused of mob lynching for cattle smuggling were not released. | India News

Unidentified persons have been booked after Tabassum Khan faced communal abuse online and her effigies were burnt.