The Allahabad High Court Tuesday granted UP government two weeks time to submit its response on a PIL seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all major riots which took place in the state after Samajwadi Party came to power. The Lucknow Bench of Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice Anil Kumar Tripathi II passed the order after Additional Advocate General Bulbul Godiyal,appearing on behalf of the state sought two weeks time to seek instructions and file response. On September 11,local social activist Nutan Thakur had filed the PIL seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all the major riots which took place after the formation of SP government in UP on March 15 last year. In the PIL,it has been alleged that the action and policy of the current government and its officials had been such that it showed a definite tilt towards a particular sect. It alleged that in all the riots that took place in last 18 months the administration "shied away from taking action against culprits of that particular sect".
