"We are in process of collecting information about all non-serious cases against Patel youths. A process is on to withdraw the cases after scrutiny," said Minister for Health and spokesperson for the Gujarat government Nitin Patel.
According to Patel, no cases yet have been withdrawn by the government.
Yesterday, a BJP leader of Patan district in North Gujarat, K C Patel had said they (the party) were ready to withdraw 41 cases against Patel youths registered mainly for damaging property inside BJP offices and other similar non-serious offence during quota violence in August last year.
Earlier, the Gujarat government had already announced that it will withdraw 74 police cases filed against 382 Patel community members across the state during quota agitation.
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In total, 457 FIRs were registered in 18 different districts across Gujarat after the quota agitation.
As per the government, police have arrested 1,750 persons named in these FIRs. However, 1,736 of them received bail immediately.