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Lucknow: In a big relief to Yogi Adityanath, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to admit a plea for a CBI probe to prosecute the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a 2007 riot case that had left one person dead.

Adityanath, along with the then Gorakhpur Mayor Anju Chowdhary and legislator Radha Mohan Agarwal, was accused of inciting a mob to riot in the over a decade old case.

A bench of Justice Krishna Murari and Justice AC Sharma hearing the petition filed by Parvez Parwaz ruled that no case would be reopened against



them.

The bench had reserved its decision on the petition on December 18, 2017, and pronounced it on Thursday.

The petitioner had challenged the order of the state government refusing to proceed against the Chief Minister.

Mohammad Asad Hayat and Parvez, in 2008 had filed petitions seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the riots that left one dead.

Additional Advocate General Manish Goel told the court that there was no ground on which the prosecution of Adityanath could be sought.

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