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Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) person and erstwhile Rajya Sabha subordinate Brinda Karat has written to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her involution successful the 2015 Dadri mob lynching lawsuit of Mohammad Akhlaq, alleging that the Uttar Pradesh government, with the Governor’s consent, is attempting to retreat the prosecution successful a mode that “subverts the full judicial process”.
In her letter, released to the media connected Friday (December 12, 2025), Ms. Karat said the U.P. Governor had granted written support to the State authorities to retreat the lawsuit adjacent though the proceedings had progressed and the testimonies of the cardinal witnesses had been recorded.
“I regret that I americium forced to constitute to you connected this matter, but since the Governor has been appointed by you and is answerable to you, I felt it is successful the interests of justness to pass you of the facts and to petition your urgent intervention,” the CPI(M) person wrote.
Akhlaq, a nonmigratory of Bisahda colony successful Gautam Buddha Nagar district, was lynched by a mob extracurricular his location connected September 28, 2015, portion his son, Danish, was grievously injured successful the aforesaid assault, she said. A lawsuit was registered nether respective provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including Sections relating to murder, effort to murder, and rioting, and had triggered wide outrage crossed the state astatine the time, Ms. Karat stated.
“In 2022, the nonstop witness, the girl of the unfortunate gave evidence, and named and identified each the accused. In different words, grounds against the accused has been presented and recorded successful the court. The lawsuit is going connected and 2 different nonstop witnesses are to springiness their statements,” she noted.
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According to Ms. Karat, the Uttar Pradesh authorities has present decided to retreat the case, citing grounds specified arsenic the usage of lathis rather than firearms, the lack of idiosyncratic enmity with the victim, and the assertion that continuation of the proceedings could pb to communal disharmony. She alleged that delays caused by the prosecution itself were present being utilized arsenic justification for seeking withdrawal. “This is motivated not to conscionable the ends of justness but to subvert the full judicial process,” she said, describing the determination arsenic a “blatant misuse” of Section 321 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Raising questions astir the relation of the Governor, Ms. Karat asked whether it was not the law work of the bureau to uphold the regularisation of law. “If specified a lawsuit is withdrawn, what volition beryllium near of the processes of justice?” she wrote, informing that it could acceptable a precedent for the withdrawal of mob lynching cases connected akin grounds.
The CPI(M) person urged the President to intervene and nonstop the Governor to retreat the support granted to the State government. She said the substance was urgent, noting that an affidavit filed by the State authorities seeking withdrawal of the case, approved by the Governor, was scheduled to beryllium heard by a territory tribunal successful Greater Noida connected December 12, but was deferred astatine the petition of the prosecution.
