Amit Shah's petition challenging FIRs dismissed as withdrawn

Amit Shah's petition challenging FIRs dismissed as withdrawn

 The Allahabad High Court today
dismissed as withdrawn BJP leader Amit Shah's petition
challenging the FIRs lodged against him in UP for alleged hate
speeches after he stated that he wanted to reply to the EC
notice in the matter.
A division bench comprising justices Arun Tandon and
Satish Chandra held that the petition stood�"dismissed as
withdrawn following the application moved by the applicant in
this regard".
It was submitted before the court by Shah's counsel and
senior BJP leader Keshri Nath Tripathi that the petitioner
wished to withdraw the petition as "he wants to reply to the
EC notice issued in the matter before seeking legal remedy".
The move came a day after the court had summoned CDs of
video footages of the alleged hate speeches made by the BJP
leader.
Shah had challenged the FIRs lodged at Bijnore and Shamli
under relevant sections of the IPC and the Representation of
People Act wherein he had been accused of delivering hate
speeches while exhorting members of the Jat community to take
"revenge" for the Muzaffarnagar communal riots by voting for
the BJP.
In his petition Shah, who is the party's national general
secretary in-charge of UP and a close aide of Narendra Modi,
had sought a stay on his arrest and quashing of the two FIRs
lodged in the two districts.