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The Supreme Court today reserved judgment on the petition filed by Congress leader Pawan Khera seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the FIR registered by Assam Police on the complaint by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, over Khera’s allegation that she held multiple passports, reports LIVELAW.in.
A bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Atul Chandurkar heard the Congress leader Pawan Khera’s plea against the Gauhati HC’s rejection of his anticipatory bail plea.
Senior Advocate Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for Khera, started by saying that it was “an unprecedented case”, as there were statements by the “boss of the boss of the boss of the Prosecutor”, referring to certain public statements made by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Singhvi said that he cannot read in open court some of the statements of Sarma, as there are “unprintable” words. He said that Sarma has threatened that Khera will spend the rest of his life in an Assam jail. “Dr.Ambedkar would turn in his grave if he had imagined that a Constitutional office holder will speak like a Constitutional cowboy or a Constitutional Rambo,” Singhvi submitted.