Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath will not face for the trial of the riots in Gorakhpur in 2007. The Uttar Pradesh Yogi Aditya Nath Government has not allowed prosecution in this case.

This statement has come from the Allahabad High Court on Thursday (May 11).

Let us know that Allahabad High Court had summoned Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary last week and had asked all the documents related to the Gorakhpur riots to be brought to court, in this case local MP and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath is accused.

The bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Umesh Chandra Shrivastav had asked the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to appear personally in court on Thursday (May 11) and sought documents that, in the name of the persons against whom this the case is to be prosecuted.

The Allahabad High Court had given this order during a hearing on the petition of a person named Parvez Parvaj. In the case of the 2007 Gorakhpur riots, a case was registered at Cantt police station in Gorakhpur, witness of the case, Asad Hyatt, also a petitioner in this case.

Earlier, the court had rebutted the state government for not allowing permission to prosecute CM Yogi Aditya Nath in this case.

In January 2007, there was a riot between two communities in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. Two people were killed in the riots and many were injured. In this case, the then BJP MP Yogi Aditya Nath, local MLA Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, and then the city's mayor Anju Choudhary have alleged that these people gave provocative speeches near the railway station, after which the riot was raging.

According to the police, this dispute was on the path to the process of Tajiya on Muharram. In this case, a lawsuit had filed on many BJP leaders, including Yogi Aditya Nath after the court order.

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