Retired judge Surendra Kumar Yadav has taken oath as the deputy Lokayukta, also known as Up-Lokayukta in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Monday, 13 April.
This comes a year after Yadav acted as a judge of a special CBI court on 30 September 2020, and acquitted all 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, 28 years after the incident took place. Among the accused acquitted, over lack of evidence, are LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Uma Bharti.
The official statement, as per PTI said: