Chandigarh, April 29 -- Haryana Congress legislators on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to governor Ashim Kumar Ghosh seeking his intervention in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against party's Ferozepur Jhirka MLA, Mamman Khan, alleging that the case was based on false allegations.

The memorandum signed by 21 MLAs including Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said that a criminal case was registered in August 2023 at Nagina police station in Nuh against some persons on the complaint of one Madan Lal. Lal alleged that on July 31, 2023, a mob of Muslims approached his shop while raising communal slogans and later set the shop on fire.

The memorandum said that during investigations, Sections 201, 395, 397...