 After this incident remaining 40 dalit families also left the village.On 24 August 2018, in a landmark judgement Delhi High Court reversed the acquittal of 20 accused and upheld the conviction of 13 others in the case with enhanced punishment for nine of them.A bench of justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta observed The statement that atrocities by those belonging to dominant castes against Scheduled Castes have shown no sign of abating even after 71 years of Independence forms part of the 209-page judgement authored by Justice S Muralidhar.