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The state government has moved an application in a Moradabad court to withdraw a case lodged against Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan,Minister of State for Textile and Sericulture Mehboob Ali and others in 2008.
The case was lodged after Azam Khan and others blocked the Moradabad-Haridwar highway for over four hours and held a demonstration outside Chhajlet police station in January 2008. The ministers allegedly led a mob of 1,000 persons,according to the then Station Officer Asif Ali Khan. After investigation,the police filed the chargesheet on May 29,2008.
Moradabads Special Prosecuting Officer A K Kaushik said the case was pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate. The charges against Azan include rioting and wrongful restraint.
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