In yet another legal setback to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected her plea for quashing a PIL filed against her in the Taj Corridor scandal. Instead, the Bench comprising Justice BS Sirpurkar and Justice B Sudershan Reddy asked the UP government to approach the high court on the issue of maintainability of the PIL.
In her petition, Mayawati had prayed for quashing of the PIL in the Allahabad High Court on the ground that opposition parties could try to destabilise her government on the issue.
The Mayawati government had filed the appeal challenging the Allahabad HC decision to admit a PIL filed by Kamlesh Verma and two others challenging the refusal of the then UP governor TV Rajeswar to grant sanction to the CBI to prosecute Mayawati in the matter.
?Destabilisation, why should we go into all those things?? the Bench asked.
The court also refused to accept the UP government?s argument that the case was politically motivated, pointing out that four similar petitions on the same issue were earlier dismissed by the court.
Earlier, on November 6, the court had refused to hear the matter out-of-turn.