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Rabble rouser Yogi Adityanath as UP CM: What happens to cases against him?

The BJP leader and his Hindu Yuva Vahini face multiple cases for creating communal tension in state

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Yogi Adityanath during the oath-taking ceremony in Lucknow. Photo: PTI

Dhirendra K Jha | Scroll.in
Eighteen years ago, on February 10, 1999, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath and his armed supporters tried to capture a graveyard in Muslim-dominated Panchrukhiya village in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh. But the police acted swiftly, and they had to flee.

On the way, however, they fired at a group of Samajwadi Party workers who had gathered on the main road close to the village for a routine demonstration against the then BJP government in the state. In the attack, at least four persons were injured. One of them, Head Constable Satyaprakash Yadav, who was the personal security guard