Remarks in opposition to PM: Supreme Court orders Pawan Khera’s launch on interim bail until Feb 28

By Online Desk

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Delhi court docket to grant interim bail to senior Congress chief Pawan Khera, who was arrested by the Assam Police from the Delhi airport, earlier at this time.

He was arrested over alleged remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the motion coming quickly after he was deplaned from a flight to Raipur the place he was going to attend the social gathering’s plenary session.

Khera who apparently fumbled on the prime minister’s father’s title throughout a press convention moved the highest court docket to hunt aid in a number of FIRs in opposition to him in Assam in addition to within the Uttar Pradesh cities of Varanasi and Lucknow.

The apex court docket issued notices to the states of Assam and Uttar Pradesh in search of their responses to Khera’s plea.

“He (Khera) has made statements in a press conference. He has made certain statements which I cannot say in the court but I personally would not have made,” Khera’s social gathering colleague and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi stated within the apex court docket. Singhvi talked about the matter for pressing itemizing earlier than a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and the court docket took it up an hour at 3 pm.

Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, showing for the Assam Police, performed the audio-video clip of the alleged remarks within the open court docket and stated Khera can’t use such “derogatory words” in opposition to a democratically elected prime minister of the nation. Bhati informed the court docket that Khera has been arrested and can be produced earlier than a reliable Justice of the Peace throughout the day for transit remand.

Assam Police stated in court docket that Khera had used “derogatory remarks” in opposition to a democratically elected prime minister. His counsel argued that he had apologised for his remarks on the prime minister and the costs in opposition to him don’t require arrest.

Freedom of Speech is slowly weakening in India, however Freedom AFTER Speech is quick changing into extinct. My colleague @Pawankhera was deplaned from a Raipur-bound flight. After ED raids, one other try and derail Congress Plenary. Murder of Democratic India is the precise acronym for Him pic.twitter.com/11LXuDSOQO

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) February 23, 2023

Khera was on his method to Raipur for the Congress plenary session with a number of of his social gathering colleagues when he was arrested on the Delhi airport after being deplaned from a flight to Raipur. The Delhi Police stated he was detained on the request of the Assam Police.

A case has been registered at Haflong police station in Assam in opposition to Khera below numerous sections of the IPC for his alleged remarks in opposition to the prime minister.

Congress leaders accompanying him sat on the tarmac in protest and resisted efforts to take him away with out an arrest warrant. “We are all on the @IndiGo6E flight 6E 204 to Raipur and all of a sudden my colleague @Pawankhera has been asked to deplane,” Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, who was additionally on the flight, stated on Twitter. “What sort of high-handedness is this? Is there any rule of law? On what grounds is this being done and under whose order?” she stated.

(With PTI inputs)

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Delhi court docket to grant interim bail to senior Congress chief Pawan Khera, who was arrested by the Assam Police from the Delhi airport, earlier at this time.

He was arrested over alleged remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the motion coming quickly after he was deplaned from a flight to Raipur the place he was going to attend the social gathering’s plenary session.

Khera who apparently fumbled on the prime minister’s father’s title throughout a press convention moved the highest court docket to hunt aid in a number of FIRs in opposition to him in Assam in addition to within the Uttar Pradesh cities of Varanasi and Lucknow.

The apex court docket issued notices to the states of Assam and Uttar Pradesh in search of their responses to Khera’s plea.

“He (Khera) has made statements in a press conference. He has made certain statements which I cannot say in the court but I personally would not have made,” Khera’s social gathering colleague and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi stated within the apex court docket. Singhvi talked about the matter for pressing itemizing earlier than a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and the court docket took it up an hour at 3 pm.

Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, showing for the Assam Police, performed the audio-video clip of the alleged remarks within the open court docket and stated Khera can’t use such “derogatory words” in opposition to a democratically elected prime minister of the nation. Bhati informed the court docket that Khera has been arrested and can be produced earlier than a reliable Justice of the Peace throughout the day for transit remand.

Assam Police stated in court docket that Khera had used “derogatory remarks” in opposition to a democratically elected prime minister. His counsel argued that he had apologised for his remarks on the prime minister and the costs in opposition to him don’t require arrest.

Freedom of Speech is slowly weakening in India, however Freedom AFTER Speech is quick changing into extinct. My colleague @Pawankhera was deplaned from a Raipur-bound flight. After ED raids, one other try and derail Congress Plenary. Murder of Democratic India is the precise acronym for Him pic.twitter.com/11LXuDSOQO
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) February 23, 2023
Khera was on his method to Raipur for the Congress plenary session with a number of of his social gathering colleagues when he was arrested on the Delhi airport after being deplaned from a flight to Raipur. The Delhi Police stated he was detained on the request of the Assam Police.

A case has been registered at Haflong police station in Assam in opposition to Khera below numerous sections of the IPC for his alleged remarks in opposition to the prime minister.

Congress leaders accompanying him sat on the tarmac in protest and resisted efforts to take him away with out an arrest warrant. “We are all on the @IndiGo6E flight 6E 204 to Raipur and all of a sudden my colleague @Pawankhera has been asked to deplane,” Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, who was additionally on the flight, stated on Twitter. “What sort of high-handedness is this? Is there any rule of law? On what grounds is this being done and under whose order?” she stated.

(With PTI inputs)