By IANS,
New Delhi : In an apparent setback to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Supreme Court Thursday restrained the creation of a Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district by redrawing boundaries of areas under Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Amethi constituency.
The apex court declined to vacate an Allahabad High Court order putting curbs on the government’s July 1 notification for creation of the new district.
The Mayawati government sought to carve out a new district out of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts.
An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice H.L. Gokhale issued the notice and directed the listing of the matter Sep 1.
However, when counsel for Uttar Pradesh government pressed for the vacation of the stay by Lucknow bench of high court, the court declined the plea.
Making a mention in court, Uttar Pradesh counsel said that the high court had erred in staying the operation of the July 1 notification for the creation of the new district.
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh was represented in the apex court by Rajya Sabha member and former advocate general of the state Satish Chandra Mishra.
The apex court was told that the high court by its Aug 11 order had already decided the question in favour of the state government for the creation of new district.
The high court held that the Dec 22, 2009 notification could not have an overriding effect on the July 1, 2010 notification for the creation of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district.
Under the Dec 22, 2009, notification under the Census Rules 1990, the state government said that there would be no change in the administrative boundaries of nagar palikas, revenue villages, tehsils, police stations, development blocks, talukas, parganas and districts between Jan 1-March 31, 2011.
However, the petition said that another bench of the Lucknow bench of the high court stayed the “operation, implementation and execution” of the July 1, 2010 notification.