Additional District Sessions judge Arvind Kumar Upadhya yesterday issued the show cause notice to Ikbal under rpt Section 344 (false evidence) of CrPC in a murder case.
The court also fixed March 5 for replying to the notice.
According to the prosecution, ten persons accused in the case were acquitted after the complainant turned hostile.
They were accused of burning a 30-year-old woman and a boy (10) alive besides severely injuring another womanat Lank village in the district during the 2013 riots.