The Supreme Court decided to examine afresh a plea seeking prosecution of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in the Rs. 17 crore Taj Corridor scam case without sanction of the Governor.
"We will examine the case," a bench comprising justices H L Dattu and Ranjan Gogoi said on the plea challenging a judgement of the Allahabad High Court which had dismissed a batch of PILs on the issue of Mayawati's prosecution in the absence of grant of sanction.
Besides Ms Mayawati, the apex court also issued notice to the Centre, CBI, the UP government and Mr Siddiqui, seeking their response within four weeks to the petition which contended that the Governor's sanction was not required for their prosecution for the offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act
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The Allahabad High Court on November 5, 2012 had upheld a June 2007 order of the special CBI court which dropped the criminal proceedings against Ms Mayawati and Mr Siddiqui for want of the then Governor's sanction to prosecute them.
In 2002, Mayawati had launched the project to beautify areas near the Taj Mahal. A year later, the Supreme Court had directed CBI to conduct an inquiry into the alleged scam in the Rs. 175 crore Taj Corridor project.However, only Rs. 17 crore was released for it.
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