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High court reserves judgment on contempt petition against Mayawati

The contempt petition was filed against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati in connection with a speech delivered by her at an election rally during the Lok Sabha polls last year.

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The Allahabad high court today reserved its judgment on a contempt petition filed against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati in connection with a speech delivered by her at an election rally during the Lok Sabha polls last year.

A division bench comprising justices Vinod Prasad and Yogesh Chandra Gupta reserved its judgment for pronouncement of verdict on October 22.

The order came on the contempt petition filed by Alka Rai, former BJP MLA and wife of slain legislator Krishnanand Rai who has accused Mayawati of having said at an election rally in Ghazipur on April 12, 2009, that the BSP candidate from the constituency Afzal Ansari and his brother and Varanasi candidate Mukhtar Ansari had been falsely implicated in the Rai murder case.

The brothers eventually lost from their respective seats and were later expelled from the party earlier this year.

Rai was gunned down along with a number of his supporters in November, 2006.

Ansari, an underworld don-turned-Independent MLA and Afzal, who was a Samajwadi Party MP at that time, were named as prime accused in the case.

In her petition, Alka Rai alleged that by giving "clean chit" to the Ansari brothers, against whom a number of criminal cases are pending at Varanasi and Ghazipur, Mayawati has committed contempt of court.

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