New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (August 26) dismissed a plea challenging the Allahabad high court judgement in a matter pertaining to the alleged hate speech of 2007 involving Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The Uttar Pradesh government had denied sanction to prosecute in the case, and the Allahabad high court had upheld the government’s decision.A bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana said it is not necessary to go into issue of denial of sanction in this case.The legal questions of sanction will be kept open to be dealt with in an appropriate case, the bench also comprising Justices Hima Kohli and C.T. Ravikumar said.“In the above circumstances, we do not think it is necessary to go into the legal questions relating to grant of sanction. Consequently, the appeal is dismissed. The question of law is left open,” Justice Ravikumar said.The petitioner Parvez Parwaz had alleged that Yogi Adityanath had made anti-Muslim hate remarks while addressing “Hindu Yuva Vahini” activists in a meeting held in Gorakhpur on January 27, 2007, LiveLaw reported.In its verdict delivered in February 2018, the high court had said it has not found any procedural error either in the conduct of an investigation or in the decision-making process of refusal to grant sanction to prosecute.An FIR was lodged at a police station in Gorakhpur against Adityanath, then a Member of Parliament, and several others on alleged charges of promoting enmity between two groups.It was alleged that several incidents of violence were reported in Gorakhpur on that day after an alleged hate speech by Adityanath.