‘Fake’ Degree Row : Allahabad HC Junks Plea Seeking Criminal Case Against Dy CM Keshav Maurya
The Allahabad Excessive Court docket on Monday dismissed a petition in search of the registration of a felony case towards Senior BJP Chief and Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya over allegations of submitting faux instructional levels whereas contesting elections and acquiring a petroleum pump dealership.
The bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh rejected the plea filed by Diwakar Nath Tripathi, a BJP chief and social activist from Prayagraj. Tripathi had approached the Excessive Court docket after an utility filed by him below Part 156(3) CrPC, in search of a police investigation into the matter, was dismissed by the Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace, Prayagraj, again in 2021.
In her order, the ACJM, Namrata Singh, had discovered that no cognizable offence was made out towards Maurya, and accordingly, Tripathi’s plea was rejected.
Tripathi later challenged the ACJM’s order earlier than the Excessive Court docket. Nonetheless, in February 2024, the Court docket dismissed his revision on the bottom of delay, noting that the petition was filed greater than 300 days after the trial courtroom’s order.
Nonetheless, in January this 12 months, the Supreme Court docket condoned the delay and directed the Excessive Court docket to take into account the matter on the deserves.
Pursuant to the Supreme Court docket’s instructions, Tripathi once more approached the Excessive Court docket with a recent petition taking the identical allegations and grounds. The matter was admitted in April 2025, and judgment was reserved in Could.
