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The Yogi Adityanath government has moved an application under Section 321 CrPC to withdraw all charges—including murder—against ten accused in the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq.

The withdrawal request, backed by written approval from the Uttar Pradesh Governor, was filed before the Upper Sessions Court in Gautam Buddha Nagar.

The 2015 lynching, triggered by rumours of beef, became a national flashpoint over mob violence, communal polarisation, and the politics of food.

Over a decade after a mob lynched Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri over rumours of beef, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has moved to withdraw all charges, including that of murder, against the ten men accused in the 2015 killing.

According to the application—a copy of which is in the posses

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