Leptonic CP violating phase
δ
CP
in the light neutrino sector and leptogenesis via present matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe entails each other. Probing CP violation in light neutrino oscillation is one of the challenging tasks today. The reactor mixing angle
θ
13
measured in reactor experiments, LBL, and DUNE with high precision in neutrino experiments indicates towards the vast dimensions of scope to detect
δ
CP
. The correlation between leptonic Dirac CPV phase
δ
CP
, reactor mixing angle
θ
13
, lightest neutrino mass
m
1
, and matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe within the framework of
μ
−
τ
symmetry breaking assuming the type I seesaw dominance is extensively studied here. Here, a SO(10) GUT model with flavor
μ
−
τ
symmetry is considered. In this work, the idea is to link baryogenesis through leptogenesis and the hint of CP violation in the neutrino oscillation data to a breaking of the mu-tau symmetry. Small tiny breaking of the
μ
−
τ
symmetry allows a large Dirac CP violating phase in neutrino oscillation which in turn is characterized by awareness of measured value of
θ
13
and to provide a hint towards a better understanding of the experimentally observed near-maximal value of
ν
μ
−
ν
τ
mixing angle
θ
23
≃
π
/
4
. Precise breaking of the
μ
−
τ
symmetry is achieved by adding a 120-plet Higgs to the
10
+
1
2
¯
6
-dimensional representation of Higgs. The estimated three-dimensional density parameter space of the lightest neutrino mass
m
1
,
δ
CP
, and reactor mixing angle
θ
13
is constrained here for the requirement of producing the observed value of baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the mechanism of leptogenesis. Carrying out numerical analysis, the allowed parameter space of
m
1
,
δ
CP
, and
θ
13
is found out which can produce the observed baryon to photon density ratio of the Universe.