The supreme court decided to hear five cases relating to the allotment of plots in Lucknow by the previous Uttar Pradesh government, headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Takes over SP chief’s case
The supreme court on Monday decided to hear five cases relating to the allotment of plots in Lucknow by the previous Uttar Pradesh government, headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The cases pending in the Allahabad high court were transferred to the apex court by a bench comprising chief justice KG Balakrishnan and justice P Sathasivam on a petition filed by the Mayawati government.
The previous Uttar Pradesh government had allotted 28 plots allegedly “illegally” in a prime locality of Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar. The plots were allotted to Mulayam’s kith and kin and others, including some bureaucrats. The petitions in the high court were filed by Shiv Singh Yadav, director, finance in the previous government, Saroj Chaudhary, wife of former revenue secretary Ambika Chaudahry,
Preeti Chaudhary, wife of former Jaunpur DM Anurag Yadav, Dulari Singh, wife of OP Singh Yadav (bureaucrat) and one Balak Ram, who were beneficiaries of the allotment.
The state government has also filed an application earlier before the apex court seeking permission to initiate criminal action against beneficiaries of the plots.
The beneficiaries also included C Rawath, father-in-law of Mulayam’s son Akhilesh Yadav, and Anita Singh, then special secretary.
Issues notice to UP CM
The supreme court issued notices on Monday to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plaint filed by student leader Abhay Singh challenging the state’s decision to put him through the brain mapping and narco-analysis tests against his wishes.
The case assumes significance as the apex court had reserved its judgment on the legality of narco analysis and brain mapping tests in January last year.
Singh said the state police wanted him to undergo the polygraph test in a two-year old murder case in which the investigation was over long time ago and he had been granted bail as well. A bench of chief justice KG Balakrishnan and justice P Sathasivam extended its February 6 order restraining the government from making Singh undergo brain mapping and narco-analysis tests till the disposal of his lawsuit.
However, some human rights activists and lawyers claimed that investigating agencies, particularly police, were defying the apex court’s mandate.
That the supreme court restrained the government from subjecting the petitioner to drug-induced tests implies that it is opposed to this form of third degree interrogation.
“But investigating agencies are defying this direction…Its contempt of the apex court,” criminal law expert and former additional solicitor general KTS Tulsi said.
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