MUMBAI: Seeking dismissal of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by former Mumbai police chief Julio Ribeiro and other prominent senior city citizens seeking Rs 3,000 crore compensation from the MVA partners for a state sponsored bandh last year, Maharashtra government said it was not a cabinet decision and that Cabinet only expressed grief for farmers who lost their lives in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The state home department filed an affidavit on Monday before a bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and justice M S Karnik submitting that statewide bandh on October 11, 2021, was in solidarity with the farmers’ protests and condemning the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
