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She had sought quashing of the PIL in the Allahabad High Court claiming that opposition parties could try to destabilise her government on the issue.
A bench of Justices B S Sirpurkar and B Sudershan Reddy asked the Uttar Pradesh government to approach the High Court on the issue of maintainability of the PIL.
"What the opposition is going to demand to destabilize the government, we are not bothered," the court said. The observation of the judges came when senior counsel K K Venugopal submitted that the PIL had the propensity to destabilise the government.
He pleaded that if the PIL was allowed to be heard, it would only give the opposition an excuse to demand her government's resignation.
"Destabilisation, why should we go into all those things?" the bench asked.
The court was also not impressed with the UP government's argument that the case was politically motivated as it claimed that four other similar petitions on the same issue were earlier dismissed by the apex court.
The judges while saying that they found no reason to interfere in the matter, granted liberty to the UP government to raise its arguments before the High Court.
The Mayawati government had filed the appeal challenging the Allahabad HC decision to admit a PIL filed by Kamlesh Verma and two others challenging the refusal of the then state Governor T V Rajeswar to grant sanction to the CBI to prosecute Mayawati in the alleged scandal.
The Taj Corridor scandal relates to certain sanctions for grant to construct a massive shopping mall and other recreation centres in the Taj corridor at a huge public cost by bending several rules and regulations.
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IT IS DUE TO COURTS, THAT INDIA STILL HAS DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. NONE OF THE THREE ORGANS ENJOY ABSOLUTE POWER WHENEVER THE LEGISLATURE OR THE EXECUTIVE INSTEAD OF USE, MISUSE/ABUSE ITS POWER, THE JUDICIARY STEPS IN. SIMILARLY WHEN THE JUDICIARY CROSSES ITS LIMITS, THE OTHER TWO ORGANS SETS IT RIGHT. NONE IS ABOVE LAW HAS BEEN PROVED MORE THAN ONCE. VIGILANT CITIZENS ARE THE BACK BONE OF RULE OF LAW. SO LONG AS WE HAVE FREE PRESS AND INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY RULE OF LAW WILL PREVAIL. SINCE JUDICIARY IS UNELECTED AND UNAPPROACHABLE CORRUPTION AND CRIME WILL REMAIN UNDER CHECK. PUBLIC MONEY IS A TRUST MONEY IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN LAID DOWN BY THE SUPREME COURT. ANY ONE MISUSING, IS LIABLE TO BE PROSECUTED. CITIZENS ARE THE MASTERS AND EVERYONE BEING PAID FROM THE TAXES, YOU AND I PAY ARE SERVANTS AND MUST BE TREATED AS SERVANTS. LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND EQUALITY NEEDS VIGILANT CITIZENS. DEPEND NOT ON ANY ONE ELSE, BUT ON YOURSELF. ENSURE RULE OF LAW AND NOT MAN
Dear Sir, The Hon'ble Apex court's verdict is most balanced one.Mayawati has no legal authority to spend the public money for her desires. She should be ousted, by imposing Governor's rule and all the amount taken from the state exchequer deserves to be recovered from her. Her existence in UP as Chief minister is theart to the economy & the people of state. She has no courage to face law, because she knows, her irregularties, and lawlessnes.She should have erected commercial manfacturing project and provide opportunities of employment to the people of the state. She believe in segmentism and these elements desrves to be defeated in all respects. She has to pay the state Exchequer, the state funds spent on her desired, this is humble submission to concerned quarters.
SC did't object when cases againt quatrochhi were asked to quash...We do understand the concern of SC very well.
This lady will eake UP back to stone ages. She has already spent ( and in return made) crores or rupees by installing her own and Kahiram's statues all over UP. The money that could be well spent on infrasturcture and development of the state. Education is one of the lowes in the country. Due to this it is the most populus state in India. This is failded democracy. Supreme court must punish her and that too swiftly. This could be the only respite to citizens of India.