The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court's order restraining it to initiate any criminal, civil or revenue proceedings against Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan in the Barabanki land dispute case.
The high court on December 11 last had given a clean chit to the actor and said there was no finding that the actor 'himself committed any fraud or manipulated any surreptitious entry in the revenue records'.
However, the state government in its special leave petition submitted that there was a case of revenue manipulation on the part of Bachchan and it needed to be investigated.
He was the preliminary beneficiary of the land and it cannot be said that he had no role in it, the petition pointed out.
The high court had disposed of Bachchan's petition challenging the order of additional commissioner of Faizabad quashing the allotment of the land in Daulatpur village of Barabanki district.
"Throughout the entire fabric of the judgment and order of district magistrate and also of the additional commissioner there is no finding that any fraud was committed by the petitioner (Bachachan) nor was any surreptitious entry manipulated at his behest," the court had observed while allowing the actor to withdraw the petition he had abandoned his claim over the land.
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