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This is an archive article published on February 20, 2004
Centre to withdraw cases
The Centre is likely to withdraw six cases registered by the CBI against participants in the Uttarakhand movement. This was stated by Union ...
The Centre is likely to withdraw six cases registered by the CBI against participants in the Uttarakhand movement. This was stated by Union Minister for Surface Transport B.C. Khanduri after a meeting with Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee here today.
Khanduri was accompanied by former Uttaranchal chief minister and BJP leader Bhagat Singh Koshiyari for the meeting. Khanduri said: 8216;8216;The Prime Minister assured us that the cases would be withdrawn.8217;8217; Sources disclosed that the Home Ministry had presented a note to the Prime Minister on the cases earlier this week.
Given the timing and pace of the Government move, it is apparently linked to the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. Khanduri, a former major general and nephew of Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, represented the Garhwal constituency in the dissolved Lok Sabha. He is set to contest the seat again.
He said the PM stated that the procedure to declare tribal-dominated areas of Uttaranchal as designated tribal districts would be started soon.
A total of over 450 cases were registered against Uttarakhand movement participants in the 1990s. The state BJP governments, headed by Nityanand Swami and Koshiyari, had withdrawn around 350 of them.
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