Ritika Singh Sisodiya / TNNLucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Monday declined to entertain a PIL seeking an independent probe into the alleged donation theft at the Ram temple.Dismissing the PIL filed by advocate Mohit Ashok, a bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla said a similar petition filed by Ajay Kumar Rai is already under consideration before the Supreme Court.The HC bench also admonished the petitioner for giving interviews to the media even before the matter could be heard. The court observed that such conduct appeared to be an attempt to gain publicity and cautioned the petitioner against repeating it in future.The petitioner had also sought an audit of the temple accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.Additional advocate general Vinod Kumar Shahi informed the bench that the Supreme Court, while hearing the petition filed by Ajay Kumar Rai had on June 29 directed that the matter be listed after the summer vacations.Taking note of the submission, the bench observed, “ On a perusal of the writ petition specially the relief clause and comparing it with the relief clause herein (high court), we find that reliefs prayed in this writ petition are substantially similar to the one prayed in the aforesaid writ petition (of Supreme Court).”
