The court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file its counter-affidavit on the writ petition moved by Singh challenging the FIR lodged against him on October 15 in Kanpur. Complainant Shivakant Tripathi, who has been made a respondent in the case, was also asked to file his counter- affidavit by the next date of hearing on December 4.

The FIR has accused Singh of having amassed Rs 500 crore by awarding contracts to a number of companies in his capacity as the then Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Development Council when the state was under SP rule.

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Earlier, Singh's counsel Rakesh Dwivedi had pleaded that a stay order be granted as the BSP government in the state could arrest the petitioner "to settle political scores as it had recently done in the case of state Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi".