Via PTI
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra executive has issued a solution, giving in-principle approval to withdraw instances registered in opposition to individuals who organised bullock cart races when there was once a ban on such occasions, an authentic on Tuesday.
The Perfect Court docket had in December closing 12 months allowed the resumption of bullock cart racing in Maharashtra, which have been prohibited within the state since 2017.
In a solution dated April 13, the state executive has mentioned that the phrases and stipulations that there was once no lack of existence and the wear to personal and public homes in such an incident was once no more than Rs 5 lakh will have to be adhered to prior to retreating any case.
Regarding a Perfect Court docket directive, the federal government has mentioned that instances by which serving and previous MPs and MLAs have been named (for staging protests to hunt permission for bullock cart races) will have to now not be withdrawn with out the prime court docket’s approval.
Additional it’s been mentioned that if the committee shaped beneath respective police commissioner and district collector (at zonal degree) unearths that it’s suitable to withdraw the instances in opposition to serving and previous MPs and MLAs, then the panel will have to make this kind of request to the prime court docket.
The committee will have to evaluate instances by which chargesheet was once filed, however there was once no lack of existence and harm led to to personal or public assets was once no more than Rs 5 lakh, and take steps to withdraw the similar consistent with parameters laid down in its order, the federal government mentioned.
The solution additionally states that if a case is filed in opposition to a couple of particular person, the quantity of wear and tear led to to public assets will have to be recovered similarly or as according to consensus, the solution mentioned.
Maharashtra House Minister Dilip Walse Patil had closing month mentioned that instances registered in opposition to organisers of the bullock cart race could be withdrawn.