After giving two top bureaucratic posts of Chief Secretary and Director General of Police to the officers of Muslim community, State Government is trying to further appease the minority community before announcement of next general elections.
They reportedly made a move to withdraw cases of riots registered against the members of minority community.
Interestingly, Akhilesh Yadav earlier already made a move to withdraw terror cases registered against the members of same community. However, he failed to do so due to intervention of the high court in the matter.
“State Government is considering withdrawing a case of inciting violence through inflammatory speeches filed against Muslim leaders, including BSP MP Kadir Rana during Muzaffarnagar riots”, sources in the Home Department revealed.
According to official sources, the law department of the Government has asked the district authorities to send a report on withdrawal of the cases filed against the leaders for allegedly inciting violence by making inflammatory speeches in a panchayat meeting at Khala Par in
Muzaffarnagar on August 31, 2013. The case was filed against BSP MP Kadir Rana, MlAs Noor Saleem and Maulana Jameel Ahmad, former Congress ministerSaeed-uz-Zaman and his son Salman saeed, community leaders Asad Zama, Naushad Qureshi, trader Ahsan, advocate Sultan Mashir and others. Arrest warrants were also issued against them in the case by a local court. Kadir
Rana and other accused exceptSaeed-uz-Zaman and three others, are on bail.The SIT is investigating into the case, but no charge sheet has been filed so far.
On August 30, the accused Muslim leaders had called a meeting at Khala Par to protest against the August 27 killing of a Muslim youth, Shahnawaz, where they had made a speech allegedly threatening in tone and tenor.
later similar move by Jat and Hindu leaders mostly belonging to Bharatiya Janty Party led to worst ever communal clash claiming over five dozen lives besides displacing over 60,000 people of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts.