The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition against a decision of the Allahabad High Court which upheld the Uttar Pradesh government’s refusal to grant sanction for prosecuting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a 2007 hate speech case.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, Justices Hima Kohli and C.T. Ravikumar said the investigation into the First Information Report (FIR) had culminated in a closure report in 2017. A protest petition filed against the closure was still pending in the trial court.
“In the aforesaid circumstances, we do not think it necessary to go into the contentions raised by both sides on the issue of denial of sanction for prosecution,” Justice Ravikumar, who authored the nine-page judgment, held.
