Uttar Pradesh Govt refuses permission to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in 2007 riots case

Advocate general Raghvendra Singh informed the Allahabad high court that the principal secretary (home) had declined to grant sanction for prosecution of the accused.

The Chief Minister,  who was an MP from Gorakhpur when the riots took place, is one of the accused.

The Advocate General  said the decision has been taken on the basis of the opinion of the forensic report of a CD allegedly having hate speech by few of the accused.

A division bench of justices Ramesh Sinha and Umesh Chandra Srivastava had directed UP Chief Secretary  to appear in person and file a personal affidavit, besides producing all documents relating to the riots, and the sanction given by state Ggovernment to prosecute the accused.

In 2008, an FIR was lodged by Parvez Parwaz at Cantonment police station in Gorakhpur in which he accused local MP Yogi Adityanath, the then city mayor Anju Chaudhri, the then MLA Radha Mohan Agarwal and one more person of inciting communal violence.

The petitioner’s counsel sought time to file an amendment application seeking the court’s permission to change the petition to challenge the refusal of sanction for prosecution of the accused.

The bench comprising justice Ramesh Sinha and justice UC Srivastava granted 10 days’ time to the petitioner’s counsel to file an amendment application in the case.