Assam Police to follow case against Pawan Khera to logical end: Sarma

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that the state police will follow the case against senior Congress leader Pawan Khera for allegedly using uncivilised language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi to its logical endThe chief minister who also holds the home portfolio however did not elaborate on the next course of action by the Assam police to bring the case to a logical endWe hope that keeping sanctity of public spaces no one will use uncivilised language in political discourse hereafter assampolice will follow the matter to its logical end the Chief Minister tweetedA police case was registered against Khera at Haflong police station in Assams Dima Hasao district of Assam for his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra ModiThe majesty of law shall always prevail The accused has tendered an unconditional apology para 7 he further posted on the microblogging site quoting the Supreme Court He also attached the apex court order granting interim bail to KheraAlso Read Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge calls Pawan Kheras arrest as HitlershahiPara seven of the SC order as mentioned by Sarma in his tweet stated that the petitioner Khera would not press the prayer for quashing the FIRs against him since he was advised to pursue the remedies available to him in accordance with the law before the appropriate high court Khera was arrested on Thursday by Assam Police at the IGI airport in Delhi after being deplaned from a DelhiRaipur flight in connection with his alleged remarks against the prime minister He was on his way to Raipur for the Congress plenary sessionThe case against Khera was registered under various sections of the IPC including 153 B imputations assertions prejudicial to national interest 500 punishment for defamation and 504 intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peaceFIRs were also filed against him in Lucknow and Varanasi on similar allegationsHe was released on interim bail by Supreme Court on ThursdayThe apex court order said that the petition by Khera pressed for clubbing the FIRs in one jurisdiction since it has been urged that the gravamen of all FIRs against him lodged in Lucknow Varanasi and Dima Hasao is one and the same namely the press conference at which certain objectionable words were statedThe judges further observed that Kheras counsel had stated that he had since clarified that the use of the language against the prime minister was Inadvertent though inappropriate and that he would not stand by the use of such language and that the petitioner tenders an unconditional apologyThis is the second incident when a case was filed against a Congress leader by Assam Police The first was that of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani who was arrested by Assam Police on April 19 2022 from Palanpur in Gujarat and brought to Kokrajhar in the northeastern state for tweeting against ModiMevani was rearrested as soon as he was granted bail in the case on April 25 2022 in connection with another litigation in Barpeta district of Assam on a complaint by a woman police officer alleging that she was assaulted by him while being taken to Kokrajhar by a posse of police personnel in a vehicle from Guwahati airport He was later granted bail by a Barpeta CourtThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever