Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday asked a petitioner to produce the copies of post-mortem reports and FIR filed by the families of victims of the Badaun gangrape and murder case by June 9.
A division bench comprising Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice Shashi Kant passed the order on a PIL filed by and NGO.
The court also asked the UP government to produce the written order of recommendation of CBI inquiry into the incident on the same date.
The petitioner argued before the court that the state government was not serious about taking action in this incident.
Meanwhile, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav blamed the media for “unfair” coverage of the Badaun incident. In an informal chat with reporters, he said, “Such incidents are happening everywhere and even more in other states but the media keeps showing UP all the time. Statistics about crime in other states is available on Google but it is UP alone that is highlighted. Similar incidents taking place in Bengaluru and MP are not shown by the media.”
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi met Union home minister Rajnath Singh and discussed various issues, including prevailing law and order and political situation, in the state.
