Plea in Supreme Court seeks lodging of FIR against Mulayam Singh Yadav

NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court for an FIR to be filed against the then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav for giving orders to open fire on kar sevaks in 1990 who were agitating peacefully for a Ram temple at Ayodhya.

A petition was first filed before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court which dismissed the plea on May 3, 2016, as the incident had not taken place within the territorial jurisdiction of Lucknow. The High Court said that it cannot direct registration of cognizable offences on the basis of statements made by leaders of political parties to their constituents.

Petitioner Rana Sangram Singh has now appealed against this decision before the top court through his lawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain.