A Cabinet sub-committee has decided to withdraw 44 cases filed during religious, political, and social protests in the state and recommended the same to the government, according to Advocate Ashish Shelar, Minister of Cultural Affairs, Electronics, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence and Chairman of the sub-committee.
A Cabinet sub-committee, chaired by Minister Advocate Shelar, has been formed to withdraw cases filed during political and social protests in the state. The committee met today at the Sahyadri Guest House. The meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary of the Law and Justice Department, the Director of the Prosecution Directorate, officials from the Home Department, and senior state police officers.
In the previous meeting, 77 cases were withdrawn; now, 44 cases were recommended for withdrawal. This committee meeting decided to withdraw cases against 44 applicants out of 133 applicants registered with the police. Similarly, crimes against women, serious cases, personal and civil cases cannot be pardoned under government policy. Therefore, withdrawal of such cases was categorically refused.
Out of the 133 applicants received by the Cabinet Sub-Committee, 14 applications have been recommended for reconsideration and will be presented to a regional committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police. Furthermore, some of the 35 cases were settled, while 32 were not within the committee's purview. Of the cases filed today, only 8 remain pending.
Cases were filed without reason against social activists, political party activists, protesters, and participants in ideological movements. Minister Advocate Shelar stated that it is the government's responsibility to free them from such unnecessary cases. The cases withdrawn today include several related to Ganeshotsav, Navratri, Dahi Handi, social events, cow protection movements, and labor movements.