The division bench of Justices PV Hardas and Reveti Dhere allowed withdrawal, as certain amendments in the present petition were necessary because of technical errors.u00a0

Petitioner Hemant Patil, president of Rashtriya Brashtachar Virodhi Janshakti, had sought the court's direction to Maharashtra government and state's police chief to register cases against Pawar and Thackeray, whose public criticism of each other had triggered violence in February this year.