Reply to plea for making Yogi party in riots case: HC

Lucknow, The Allahabad High Court has given two weeks to the UP Government to file objections, if any, to a petition seeking to make Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accused in the 2007 Gorakhpur riots case.
Division Bench of Justice Krishna Murari and Justice AC Sharma scheduled the next hearing in the case on October 9. Earlier, petitioner’s counsel SFA Naqvi moved an application to allow naming of CM Yogi, present Union minister Shiv Pratap Shukla, then Gorakhpur Mayor Anju Chaudhary and sitting MLA Dr Mohan Das Aggarwal and others as respondents in the case.
The court did not take cognizance of Advocate General Raghvendra Singh’s objections that the application was not maintainable and should not be allowed.
Earlier, the Allahabad High Court had allowed the petitioners to challenge the UP Government’s May 3 order refusing to grant sanction to prosecute Adityanath for his reported 2007 hate speech that allegedly triggered communal riots. On January 27, 2007, a person was stabbed to death in a clash between Hindu and Muslim groups during a Moharram procession.

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