77 Cases On Muzaffarnagar Riots Withdrawn, Lawyer Tells Supreme Court

New Delhi:

The Uttar Pradesh authorities has withdrawn 77 instances referring to the Muzaffarnagar riots with out giving any causes, the Supreme Court docket was advised on Tuesday. This was a part of a report that was filed by amicus curiae senior advocate Vijay Hansaria in a case referring to expediting instances in opposition to MPs and MLAs.

Apart from Uttar Pradesh, a number of different states have additionally withdrawn quite a lot of instances in opposition to legislators.

A bench led by Chief Justice NV Ramana will hear the matter in the present day.

In his report, Mr Hansaria mentioned 77 instances linked to Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, for which the accused would have gotten life time period in jail, had been withdrawn by the Uttar Pradesh authorities with out assigning any purpose.

Mr Hansaria desires these 77 instances to be examined by the Excessive Court docket. In its final listening to, the Supreme Court docket had directed that instances in opposition to MPs and MLAs can’t be closed with out the permission of the Excessive Court docket.

Altogether, 510 instances on the 2013 riots had been registered in opposition to 6,869 accused after the riots, through which greater than 60 individuals died and tons of had been injured.

Of those, chargesheet was filed in 175 instances, remaining studies had been submitted in 165 instances and 170 instances had been expunged.

Mr Hansaria has additionally identified that the Karnataka authorities has withdrawn 62 instances with out assigning any purpose, Tamil Nadu has withdrawn 4 instances, Telangana has withdrawn 14 instances and Kerala has withdrawn 36 instances.  

In December final yr, Uttar Pradesh had drawn up a listing of leaders in opposition to whom instances had been being withdrawn. The checklist included three BJP MLAs — Sangeet Som, Suresh Rana, Kapil Dev – and right-wing chief Sadhvi Prachi.

The transfer got here after Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik signed off a invoice that sought to drop 20,000 instances in opposition to politicians. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath mentioned the instances had been “not severe” and had been “pending for a really very long time”.  

In March this yr, instances in opposition to 12 BJP leaders — Suresh Rana, Sangeet Som, and Sadhvi Prachi – had been dropped, with the assent of a particular court docket.