The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed a trial court’s proceedings in the case of the alleged lynching of 17-year-old Junaid Khan on a train this June, The Hindu reported.

A division bench of justices of Mahesh Grover and Raj Shekhar Attri issued a notice to the Haryana government and the Central Bureau of Investigation on his family’s plea for an inquiry by the central agency. Last week, a single-judge bench had rejected the petition filed by Khan’s father Jalaluddin Khan.

“The proceedings in the Faridabad Sessions Court have been stayed until January 11,” the family’s counsel, Arshdeep Singh Cheema, told The Indian Express.

Junaid Khan, his brother and two cousins were attacked on a Mathura-bound train in June, allegedly by a mob that hurled communal slurs at them. The teenager was stabbed to death during the attack.

His father filed a petition before the trial court in October, accusing the police of carrying out a shoddy investigation and subverting the inquiry “in a calculated manner” to aid the accused.