Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey said on Wednesday that he has withdrawn a case filed in 2018 after an investigation found that a Hindu man had posed as a Muslim to frame some members of the minority community.

In July 2018, the Delhi Police had filed the case based on a complaint by the Godda MP, who had alleged that a prisoner in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj jail had threatened to kill him, according to The New Indian Express.

On Wednesday, Dubey said on social media that the investigation into the case had found that a resident of Godda district’s Kumardih village, Kundan Kumar Das, had threatened him and “conspired to frame some Muslim boys” in the case.

According to the MP, the mobile that was used to call him had been bought using the name Muhammad Gulfam.

Dubey said that he personally appeared before the Delhi High Court on Wednesday and requested the bench to dismiss the case. “The honourable High Court cancelled the case with a fine of Rs 10,000 and an order that such an incident should not be repeated in the future,” he said.

Dubey had claimed in 2018 that the person who called to threaten him had abused him for bearing the legal expenses of four men accused of lynching two persons on suspicion of cattle theft in Godda days earlier.

The two men were beaten to death in June 2018 after a group of five persons allegedly stole 12 buffaloes from Dullu village.

They were followed by the villagers and while three of them escaped, Murtaza Ansari and Charku Ansari were caught by the mob. Villagers claimed that they found the missing buffaloes in the possession of the two men and lynched them.

Two days later, Dubey had said that the four men arrested in the matter had been unfairly targeted.

“The entire village was involved in the beating,” he had said. “Why are these four people being singled out just because their cattle was stolen?”

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