SC to Hear Congress Chief Pawan Khera’s Plea on Monday

The Supreme Court docket is scheduled to listen to on Monday a plea of Congress chief Pawan Khera searching for switch and clubbing of FIRs lodged in opposition to him in Assam and Uttar Pradesh for allegedly making objectionable remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Friday deferred the listening to on Khera’s plea to March 20 after paying attention to submissions that senior advocate A M Singhvi, showing for the Congress chief, was unavailable.

Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for Uttar Pradesh and Assam, urged the bench that the matter will be taken up for listening to on Monday as an alternative of Friday.

“Okay, we’ll take it up on Monday,” mentioned the bench, which additionally contains justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala.

The apex court docket had earlier prolonged the interim bail of Khera, who was arrested by Assam Police within the case, until March 17.

Earlier, Assam and Uttar Pradesh governments, of their separate affidavits, opposed Khera’s plea searching for clubbing of FIRs lodged in opposition to him, claiming that his celebration was nonetheless persevering with with the “exact same low degree” on their social media accounts.

The Uttar Pradesh authorities sought dismissal of the plea with a value by terming it “misconceived” and “an try to leapfrogging the routine process accessible underneath the Code of Prison Process (CrPC)”.

“It’s submitted that the leaders of the political celebration (Congress) to which the petitioner (Khera) belongs have, even after this hon’ble court docket taking cognisance of the matter, continued the exact same low degree of their official Twitter handles and different social media accounts,” the Assam authorities mentioned.

Previous to this, on February 27, the highest court docket had prolonged the safety from arrest to Khera.

The Congress spokesperson was arrested from the Delhi airport after he was de-boarded from a aircraft that was presupposed to take him to Raipur in connection together with his alleged remarks in opposition to Modi made at a press convention in Mumbai on February 17.

He obtained bail from a magisterial court docket right here on February 23 after the CJI-led bench granted him the interim bail throughout an pressing listening to earlier within the day.

“With a view to allow the petitioner (Khera) to use for normal bail earlier than the jurisdictional court docket, upon the FIRs being transferred to at least one jurisdiction, we direct that the petitioner shall be launched on interim bail by the court docket of the competent Justice of the Peace at Delhi the place he’s to be produced this night,” the apex court docket had mentioned.

“The above order shall stay in operation until February 28,” it had mentioned.

The apex court docket, which had listed the matter for listening to on February 27, had issued notices to Assam and Uttar Pradesh, searching for their responses on Khera’s plea for transferring and clubbing collectively three separate FIRs lodged in opposition to him within the two states.

After dictating the order, the CJI had apparently expressed his displeasure over Khera’s remarks and noticed: “We now have protected you (Khera), however there must be some degree of discourse.” Singhvi, showing for Khera, had mentioned the phrases taken at their face worth, as mirrored within the FIRs, don’t set up any offence punishable underneath the sections invoked.

He additionally instructed the apex court docket that Khera had already apologised for his remarks and the offences alleged in opposition to him within the instances didn’t require arrest.

Further Solicitor Basic Aishwarya Bhati, showing for the state of Assam, had performed the offending video within the court docket and claimed that Khera’s assertion on Modi was a “deliberate try to denigrate a constitutional functionary”. PTI SJK DIV DIV

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