Summary:
“The High Court has observed after going through the original records that… there is no illegality,” the state said in an affidavit filed in the apex court. Defending its decision to deny sanction for prosecuting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a 2007 hate speech case, the state government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the Allahabad High Court had found there was no illegality in the decision. It was on Parvaz’s plea that an FIR was lodged in 2008 against Adityanath, who was then a member of Parliament. The petitioner questioned the Home Department’s May 3, 2017 decision to deny prosecution, saying the department was under the CM who could not be a “judge in his own cause”. AdvertisingReplying to his plea, the state told the apex court that the petition “has suppressed that the DVD given to the investigating authority was made after years of the alleged incident, which was found as a tampered DVD in the FSL report”..