The Uttarakhand High Court has permitted a petitionerfrom Ghaziabad to withdraw his PIL in connection with the alleged dhaincha (green manure crop) seed procurement scam and file a fresh one with additional facts.
The petition was filed by Jayaprakash Dabral in March 2017.
His PIL claimed thatin 2006, when present Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat was Uttarakhand's agriculture minister, dhaincha seeds were bought at double the market price.
It also alleged that the then agriculture secretary Om Prakash and director of agricultureMadanutsav Lal were also involved in the scam.
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