Overview

• Khatri moved his discharge plea on July 9 in the local court handling the abetment case, asserting false implication and insufficient evidence.
• In the petition he challenges the chargesheet’s claims under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and denies any role in instigating Darshan Solanki’s suicide.
• Earlier this month he withdrew his quashing petition from the Bombay High Court, abandoning efforts to halt the criminal proceedings before trial.
• Khatri remains out on bail and the substantive trial has yet to begin since his April 2023 arrest.
• Police allege they found a note in Solanki’s hostel room blaming Khatri and cite threats made after a communal remark as grounds for the abetment and intimidation charges.