00:00Breaking news coming in, the High Court of Gauhati, the Assam High Court has denied anticipatory bail to Pawan Khera
00:09and India today has accessed the order that has been passed by the High Court.
00:14The court has given a very, very serious picture in the case saying that this is not just a defamation
00:22case, there are allegations of forged documents as well.
00:27Custodial quizzing of Pawan Khera is imperative.
00:31Gauhati High Court has said that Khera dragged an innocent lady.
00:38Remember, this case is pertaining to the allegations that Congress leader Pawan Khera had made regarding alleged multiple passports of
00:48Himanta Bishwara Sharma, the sitting chief minister of Assam.
00:51His wife, Pawan Khera, had made serious allegations against Rinki Sharma.
00:57And the Gauhati High Court, while denying anticipatory bail, says,
01:01Prima fesci case of possession of forged documents and not merely defamation.
01:07The High Court has said Pawan Khera is avoiding police investigation and that custodial interrogation is imperative in order to
01:17unearth, unearth, who are his associates who collected these forged documents.
01:23Srishti Ojha is joining me on this story.
01:25Srishti, it's a big comment from the Gauhati High Court.
01:29The Assam High Court coming on, weighing in on Rinki Sharma's side, saying that she's not in politics.
01:39This is not a case of political rhetoric.
01:42What more do we know?
01:45Well, Anisha, definitely the fact that the Gauhati High Court today denied Andrew Spetri bail to Pawan Khera was a
01:50major setback to him.
01:51But if we see the order, there are some adverse remarks that have also been made by the High Court
01:56against Pawan Khera.
01:57The court has said that Prima fesci, there is a case of possession of forged documents and not merely defamation
02:04against Khera.
02:05Another important remark that has come in from the High Court is that custodial interrogation of Pawan Khera is imperative.
02:11It is required to unearth who are his associates and who collected those documents for Khera.
02:17Not just that, according to High Court, Pawan Khera is also avoiding police investigation.
02:22Remember the argument, a major argument placed by the legal team of Pawan Khera was that the allegations against him
02:30are being made only due to political reasons.
02:32But what the High Court has said is honestly completely opposite.
02:36The court is saying that whatever has been done by Pawan Khera, that was done to gain political mileage.
02:43The Assam's Chief Minister, CM's wife, is not in politics.
02:47So had the case been against CM, it could have been a case of political rhetoric.
02:51But in this case, Pawan Khera has dragged an innocent lady into the controversy to gain political mileage.
02:58According to High Court, there is no material at all to suggest that the case against Khera is in any
03:06way to injure him or humiliate him.
03:08And he has also failed to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the wife of Assam's Chief Minister possesses passport
03:14of three other countries.
03:16So definitely a major setback for Pawan Khera.
03:18And I think the only remedy at this point for him legally speaking would be to challenge this order before
03:24the Supreme Court.
03:25Back to you.
03:26Alright, thank you very much for that, Srishti Oja.
03:28We'll see now what steps Pawan Khera takes next in this matter because earlier also he had gone to the
03:36Supreme Court which had sent him back to the Assam High Court.
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