The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh got a breather on Wednesday with the Supreme Court setting aside the Allahabad High Court's interim order staying the notification of the creation of a district, named after Dalit leader Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj.
The district has been carved out of the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency represented by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Entertaining an appeal filed by the government against the August 18 order of the High Court, a Bench consisting of Justices R.V. Raveendran and H.L Gokhale quashed the order without going into merits and asked the High Court to hear afresh the plea for interim relief taking into consideration an order passed by another Division Bench dismissing a similar petition.
Senior counsel P.P. Rao and Harish Salve for the State government submitted that the impugned order was passed despite the fact that another Division Bench had dismissed a similar petition. Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam for the Registrar-General (Census) submitted that bifurcation would affect census enumeration and this fact had been taken into consideration when the interim order was passed.
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