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According to fresh news, a relief was given to former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati by the Allahabad High Court on Monday. The court had dismissed the petition seeking the prosecution of the Mayawati along with cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui in the Taj Heritage Corridor case of 2003.

Reports have said that the top investigating agency of the country, CBI, had filed a chargesheet against former CM Mayawati, Naseemuddin Siddiqui, former principal secretary of environment R K Sharma and former environment secretary Rajendra Prasad under IPC sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 before a special CBI court here in 2007.

Further, the report said that they draw off Rs 175 crore for the construction of the corridor around the Taj and other monuments in Agra, which ultimately caused loss to the government exchequer.

However, the Allahabad High Court judge did not admit the chargesheet and discharged the accused on the basis that the then governor T V Rajeswar had withheld the sanction to prosecute Mayawati and Siddiqui in June 2007.

Later in 2009, three separate PILs were submitted in the Lucknow bench of High Court against the special CBI court’s order by Kamlesh Verma, Anupama Singh and Qateel Ahmed.

As the earlier matter was pending in the court, therefore , these three PILs seeking same orders in 2011 by Kashi Prasad Yadav, Mamta Singh and Sachindra Pratap Singh.