THE ALLAHABAD High Court on Friday asked the UP government to submit case diaries and original records of the investigation into the 2007 Gorakhpur hate speech case, in which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been named as an accused. A division bench comprising Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Akhilesh Chandra Sharma also sought submission of the government’s May 3 order refusing to grant sanction to prosecute the accused, including prime accused Adityanath.

While hearing final arguments in the hate speech case on Friday, the bench directed state advocate general Raghvendra Singh to submit — on September 11, the next date of hearing — all case diaries and original police and government records of the incident, which led to communal riots in Gorakhpur in 2007. This, despite Singh stating that all records have been submitted to the court.