A petition was on Thursday filed with the Allahabad high court bench here on behalf of VHP’s proposed Chaurasi Kosi yatra, seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh government to give its permission for the same. The petition, moved by one Pramod Pandey in the registry of HC, is likely to come up for hearing next Saturday. Vishwa Hindu Parishad has proposed the yatra by seers between August 25 to September 13 but the Akhilesh Yadav government in the state has refused permission for it to take place. The petitioner has alleged that the government’s decision was illegal and arbitrary.