Muzaffarnagar:
A court here
has allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to withdraw a case of violation of the
Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the 2017 assembly polls against state
Cabinet minister Suresh Rana.
Additional District Judge Ram Sudh Singh on Tuesday permitted
the application filed by the prosecution on behalf of the state government to
withdraw the case. The state government’s plea said it wanted to withdraw the
case “in public interest”.
On the direction of Election Commission, police had
registered a case against Rana, the then BJP candidate from Thanabhawan in
Shamli district, on January 30, 2017 for allegedly giving inflammatory speeches
during the election campaign.
Meanwhile, the UP government is also considering withdrawing
four cases against BJP MLA Sangeet Som, including those related to the 2013
Muzaffarnagar riots, assistant district government council Subhash Saini told PTI. The district authorities have
already sent a report in this regard sought by the state government, he said.
One of the four cases relates to an inflammatory video
uploaded on social media in which Som was given a clean chit by the SIT probing
riots cases. However, the trial in the case is still pending in the court here.
The video showing the killing of a youth had triggered
communal riots in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in 2013 in which more than
60 people were killed and over 40,000 people displaced. (PTI)
