ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Friday issued a notice to

on a petition filed by sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, challenging his election from Varanasi in the Lok Sabha polls.

Issuing the notice, Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta asked the respondent to file a reply before the next hearing on August 21.

Yadav, who had filed his nomination as SP candidate from Varanasi, had failed to contest the election as his nomination paper was rejected by the returning officer (RO) on May 1 following his failure to submit a certificate that he was not sacked from the force for either corruption or disloyalty.Yadav has alleged that his paper was wrongly rejected by the RO under alleged pressure from Modi. Yadav has also taken the plea that since Modi had not given details of his family, his nomination paper too should have been rejected, which was not done.