{"id":309130,"date":"2019-02-08T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309130"},"modified":"2019-02-08T08:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T08:26:44","slug":"bsp-supremo-mayawati-has-to-deposit-public-money-used-for-erecting-her-statues-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bsp-supremo-mayawati-has-to-deposit-public-money-used-for-erecting-her-statues-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"BSP supremo Mayawati has to deposit public money used for erecting her statues: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299905 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-680x420.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Friday said it was of the tentative view that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati had to deposit public money she spent as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in erecting statues of herself and party symbol &#8216;elephant&#8217; at parks in Lucknow and Noida to the state exchequer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today did not take kindly to the former CM&#8217;s decision to use public exchequer for constructing images of herself and the BSP\u2019s electoral symbol in several places, including Noida and Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We primarily think that Mayawati has to deposit the public money she has spent on statues, elephants,&#8221; remarked Justice Gogoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench, also comprising Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjeev Khanna made it clear that the tentative view was expressed by it as the matter would take some time for hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench posted the matter for final hearing on April 2.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday said it was of the tentative view that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati had to deposit public money she spent as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in erecting statues of herself and party symbol &#8216;elephant&#8217; at parks in Lucknow and Noida to the state exchequer. A bench headed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,2014,2015],"tags":[1005,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309131,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309130\/revisions\/309131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}