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A division bench of Allahabad High Court stayed a single judge’s controversial judgment denying minority status to Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, which had set off a political storm on the eve of the UP Assembly elections. Amid wide-ranging political and constitutional ramifications of the high court judge, Mr Justice SN Srivastava’s verdict, which ruled that Muslims ceased to be a minority community in UP, the Mulayam SinghYadav government swiftly swung into action, moving an urgent application before a division bench to challenge the single bench’s judgment.
The division bench comprising Justice SR Alam and Justice Krishna Murari gave the stay order after preliminary hearing of the state government’s review petition.