Defending his Government’s decision to withdraw cases against people accused in terror cases, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said his Government honours court’s verdict but will continue its fight for the cause of innocent people.
He was reacting to Allahabad High Court’s verdict in which the vacation bench has stayed Government process to withdraw cases against those people involved in blasts in Faizabad civil court and Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi.
“My Government will continue its fight for the cause of the innocents who were illegally framed in terror cases. The Samajwadi Party Government is committed to fulfil its promises made in the poll manifesto. We had announced that our Government would withdraw false cases against innocent people and we are fulfilling that promise,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a Government function held here on Friday to launch a health scheme for the poor in the State.
The State Government had accepted the RD Nimesh Commission report which had also said the arrest of some terror accused were not as per the norms. The Government was in a process to withdraw cases against 35 terror accused in the State including the serial blasts in three civil courts of lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad along with Sankat Mochan and Gorakhpur serial blasts.
One of the terror accused Khalid Mujahid had died under mysterious circumstances on May 18.
The local court of Barabanki had rejected the State Government’s proposal to withdraw terror cases against Khalid Mujahid and Tariq Qureshi while the Gorakhpur court will give its verdict on June 12.