: The special MP/MLA court in Muzaffarnagar has accepted the closure report submitted by special investigation team (SIT) in a case against BJP MLA Sangeet Som and others for allegedly uploading a video on social media that is said to have triggered communal riots in Muzaffarnagar in 2013.
The riots had claimed the lives of more than 60 persons and rendered over 50,000 others homeless.
The closure report was pending with the court since April 4, 2017 and it accepted the report on Saturday.
Additional district government councilor (ADGC) Lalit Bhardwaj said SIT’s inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was the complainant in the case and he submitted a closure report on April 4, 2017 after finding no evidence against the MLA and others.
Subodh was killed by a frenzied mob in December 2018 after an incident of cow slaughter in Stana area of district Bulandshahar. He was then posted as inspector in Syana kotwali.
Bhardwaj said after Sabodh’s death no one objected to the closure report and the court accepted it after recording the statement of the policeman who submitted the death report of Sabodh in the court.
A case under sections 420,153A, 120B of IPC and 66 of IT Act was registered against Som and 200 others who liked the video, allegedly uploaded by Som after the killing of two brothers in Kawal village of Muzaffarnagar.
{{/usCountry}}A case under sections 420,153A, 120B of IPC and 66 of IT Act was registered against Som and 200 others who liked the video, allegedly uploaded by Som after the killing of two brothers in Kawal village of Muzaffarnagar.
{{/usCountry}}It is said that the video, a fake one allegedly of killing of two persons in Afghanistan, was shared in social media as the video of the Kawal incident, which triggered fierce communal riots in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli district in September 2013.