Lucknow: Seven months after Congress MLC joined BJP, government orders withdrawal of 2013 case

Lucknow | Saturday | 8th December, 2018

Summary:

SEVEN MONTHS after MLC Dinesh Pratap Singh left Congress to join the BJP, the state government has ordered withdrawal of a criminal case lodged against him in Rae Bareli in 2013. “The withdrawal application in a case against Dinesh Singh was yesterday moved in the concerned court. Sources said the BJP is all set to use Dinesh Singh against Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The Rae Bareli police investigated the case and then filed a chargesheet against all 11 accused on the same charges in January 2016. Dinesh’s brother Rakesh Singh too is a Congress MLA from Rae Bareli’s Harchandpur constituency, but he has not joined BJP so far..