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Uttar Pradesh: Mau court issues notice to CM Yogi Adityanath for calling Lord Hanuman a dalit

VARANASI: The court of district and sessions judge of Mau has issued a notice to CM-designate Yogi Adityanath for allegedly terming Lord Hanuman a Dalit in his speech at Alwar in Rajasthan in 2018.

"A Dohrighat native, Navalkant Sharma, had filed a complaint before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Shweta Chaudhary, who is also looking after MP-MLA court affairs, stating that his sentiments had been hurt by this statement of Yogi," said Sharma’s lawyer Gani Ahmed Nomani. He added that the complaint had been rejected.

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