Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Monday backed the government's decision to withdraw cases related to the 2022 Hubballi riots and claimed that even Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had dropped ones against him, PTI reported.

His comments come in response to the BJP staging a protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru against the government's October 10 decision to withdraw criminal cases registered against a mob that attacked policemen with stones in April 2022 in north Karnataka's Hubballi town.