SC grants interim relief to Congress leader Pawan Khera; issues notice to UP, Assam Police to club FIRs
The Supreme Court directed a court in Dwarka to grant interim bail to senior Congress leader Pawan Khera, who was arrested by the Assam Police from the Delhi airport, earlier Thursday. Khera was deplaned and arrested from an Indigo flight to Raipur, after an FIR was lodged against him for his comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In its order, a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and MR Shah said, “In order to protect the petitioner until such date as he applies for regular bail before the jurisdictional court upon the FIRs being transferred to one and the same jurisdiction, we direct that till the next date of listing, the petitioner shall be released on interim bail by the court of the competent magistrate in Delhi where he is to be produced this evening. The above order shall remain in operation till Tuesday”.
Appearing for Khera, senior Advocate AS Singhvi told the apex court that Khera apologised and said that the remarks on PM Modi were by mistake and a ‘slip of tongue’.
Khera recently referred to the Prime Minister as “Narendra Gautamdas Modi” while addressing a press conference to demand an investigation by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into allegations made by the US-based Hindenburg Research firm against the Adani Group.
Speaking to The Indian Express, a Delhi Police spokesperson said, “A request was received from Assam Police for assistance in the arrest of accused Sri Pawan Khera. Based upon the same, local assistance was provided and upon the requisition of Assam Police, accused Shri Pawan Khera was detained from Terminal 1 of the IGI Airport and has been subsequently arrested by the Investigating Officer (IO) concerned of Assam Police.”
Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan, Inspector General of Police (L&O), and official spokesperson of Assam Police, told The Indian Express that a case against Khera was registered at the Haflong Police Station of the state’s Dima Hasao on Wednesday. “Accordingly, we have registered a case and deputed a team to Delhi to bring Pawan Khera for further interrogation. Right now, our team is in Delhi airport, being assisted by CISF and Delhi Police. They are doing necessary formalities,” he said.
“We will seek for transit remand to the local court in Delhi. After we get the transit remand, we will get him to the state,” he added. The complaint was filed by one Samuel Changsan, who described himself as a ‘social worker’. “According to the complainant, Khera had made some objectionable remarks about the Prime Minister a few days back, and there he was trying to vitiate the communal harmony in the society…that is the content of the FIR,” said Bhuyan.
Who is Samuel Changsan, person who filed FIR against Pawan Khera?
An FIR was filed against Pawan Khera by Samuel Changsan, a BJP member, and Executive Member of its Scheduled Tribe Morcha in Assam. Changsan said that a “series of personalized attacks” on PM Modi by Khera led him to file the FIR.
Speaking to The Indian Express, he said, “I belong to a very remote part of the country and I have been having very positive vibes about the development across the country. I was affected by the series of very personalized attacks against the constitutional post of the Prime Minister in the last few months. So seeing that FIRs are filed in other parts of the country, I also decided to do so. I am quite pleasantly surprised that my state police has taken action in this matter”.
Source of Info- https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pawan-khera-flight-raipur-deplaned-congress-8462068/
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