Uttar Pradesh: Under Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh government has applied to withdraw all charges, including murder, against the ten men accused of the 2015 killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri.

The government has applied to the Upper Sessions Court in Gautam Buddha Nagar, where the case is being heard. They asked for the removal of all charges against the accused. Among the accused is Vishal Rana, son of local BJP leader Sanjay Rana.

At the time of the incident, the accused were charged under different sections of the Indian Penal Code, which is now superseded by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). They were charged under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 506 (crimina

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