Lucknow, April 12: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has asked the district magistrates of Barabanki and Lucknow to file affidavits for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of a particular community.
The division bench comprising Justice D P Singh and Justice S C Chaurasia gave the directions yesterday and asked the DMs of Barabanki and Lucknow to file affidavits within two days.
Dharmendra Rawat of Lucknow and Vasudev Gupta of Barabanki had moved the court claiming that their religious sentiments were hurt by concerned DMs.
Rawat alleged that he was not permitted to recite Ramayana and perform religious ceremony at Sadrauna village in Kakori on November 17 last year. He also said that an FIR was also lodged against him alleging that he was reciting Ramayana at namaz time.
In the second matter, Gupta said that he was not allowed to take Akhand Jyoti Kalash procession in Barabanki.
Counsel of both the petitioners, H S Jain condemned the action of the state and termed it as ”unconstitutional”.
——-PTI