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UP riots: Sahai panel indicts BJP MLA, suggests no action

Lucknow:
Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission’s report on Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 has put the BJP’s Sangeet Singh Som on top of the list of those it has found responsible for the flare-up, but has not recommended any action against the Sardhana MLA.
While elaborating that police officials informed him that Som uploaded a video that triggered the communal unrest in September 2013, Justice Sahai refers to the FIR against the BJP MLA and 229 others and says: “…but in my view, till the case arising out of the said CR (police case) is decided, the averment in the FIR of the said CR would only remain an