What happened
A Muzaffarnagar special court permitted the prosecution to withdraw a criminal case against 25 accused linked to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots episode. The withdrawal order was pronounced by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate and MP-MLA court judge Devendra Kumar Faujdar.
The accused included named individuals such as Sanjeev Balyan (former Union Minister), Umesh Malik (BJP leader), Suresh Rana (former Uttar Pradesh Minister), and Sadhvi Prachi.
The criminal case was linked to events around a proposed public meeting at a school ground in the Sikheda area on August 31, 2013. Court records stated that permission for the meeting had not been granted due to restrictions at the time. Police alleged that the gathering happened despite restrictions and involved crowd disturbance.
Background and earlier position
The case is part of the wider 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots context. A key timeline feature is the gap between August 31, 2013 and the court’s permission for withdrawal issued more than a decade later.
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