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SC Declines to Dismiss PIL against Mayawati in Taj Corridor Scam

The Supreme Court has dismissed UP chief minister Mayawati petition seeking quashing a PIL which was filed against her in the Taj corridor scam involving construction of a massive shopping mall and recreational centres near the world famous monument.

Claiming that opposition parties could use the issue to destabilize her government, she had sought quashing of the PIL in the Allahabad High Court.

A bench of the apex court comprising of Justices BS Sirpurkar and B Sudershan Reddy asked the UP government to move to the High Court on the issue of maintainability of the PIL.

“What the opposition is going to demand to destabilize the government, we are not bothered,” the court said.

The observation of the bench came following submission by senior counsel KK Venugopal that the PIL had the susceptibility to destabilize the government. Pleading that if the PIL was permitted hearing, it would only give the opposition an excuse to demand her government’s resignation.

“Destabilisation, why should we go into all those things?” the bench asked.

Besides, the court did not entertain the UP government’s argument that the case was politically motivated as it claimed that four other similar petitions on the same issue were earlier dismissed by the apex court.

However, the apex court, finding no reason to interfere in the matter, granted liberty to the UP government to raise its arguments before the High Court.

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 state Governor T V Rajeswar to grant sanction to the CBI to prosecute Mayawati in the alleged scandal.

The Taj Corridor scandal relates to certain sanctions for grant to construct a massive shopping mall and other recreation centres in the Taj corridor at a huge public cost by bending several rules and regulations.

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