Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given relief to him and a dozen other people in a 22-year-old case to dismiss the order for Injunction, as the state government has ordered it to be withdrawn.
The case against the Chief Minister, who is still in the portfolio of the Home Department and Union Minister Shiv Pratap Shukla, BJP MLA Sheetal Pandey and 10 others in the Pipiganj Police Station in Gorakhpur, on 27 May 1995, for holding a meeting in breach of prohibitory orders.
That the state government issued orders last week to withdraw the case against the Chief Minister, a day before the Uttar Pradesh criminal law [Composition of Offenses and Abatement of Trials] Amendment Bill, 2017 was introduced in the State assembly.
That, Prior to presenting the bill, Adityanath told the House that 20,000 “politically motivated” cases were registered in the entire state on protests. The Amendment to the law will end all cases pending before the magistrate till December 31, 2015.
The Gorakhpur Additional District Magistrate, city, Rajneesh Chandra said that the order to file an application to withdraw the case from the court was received from the State Headquarters. The prosecution officer has been asked to file a return application in the appropriate court, he said.
As per the record of the Pipiganj police station in Gorakhpur district, the case under Section 188 of the IPC [disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant] was against Yogi Adityanath and others was filed on May 27, 1995 for organizing a meeting in the town of Pipiganj in spite of prohibitory orders issued by the administration
This case was pending in a local court, which had earlier directed that non-bailable warrants (NBWs) be issued for non-attendance against accused.