Overview

• Additional Sessions Judge H G Pandya approved the public prosecutor’s Section 321 CrPC plea to withdraw the prosecution.
• Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt sought the withdrawal, noting the near three-decade delay and changed circumstances.
• The 1996 FIR at Naranpura police station alleged an assault under IPC Section 307 during a BJP event shortly after Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the gathering.
• Complainant Atmaram Patel and co-accused Mangaldas Patel died during the long pendency, leaving the approximately 95-year-old A K Patel as the remaining accused.
• The order follows a pattern of related cases from that period being closed, including a 2018 dismissal involving 41 accused such as Pravin Togadia and Babu Jamna Patel.