TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ The Uttar Pradesh government informed the Allahabad high court that it had refused sanction for the prosecution of Yogi Adityanath, former Member of Parliament and the current Chief Minister, and others named in an FIR for allegedly inciting communal violence in Gorakhpur in 2007.
Chief Secretary Rahul Bhatnagar, who appeared before the bench comprising Justices Umesh Chandra Srivastava and Ramesh Sinha, filed an affidavit conveying the governments decision.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Parvez Parvaz, complainant in one of the FIRs lodged after the 2007 incident. The next hearing in the matter has been scheduled for July 7.
In its affidavit, the government said that sanction for prosecution under different IPC sections including 153 (A) promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony was refused because the CD, which was presented as the main evidence, had been tampered with. The government said this conclusion was reached by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in October 2014.
