Allahabad Excessive Courtroom dismisses Congress chief Pawan Khera’s plea in defamation case

Congress celebration Spokesperson Pawan Khera. File
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The Allahabad Excessive Courtroom has dismissed a petition filed by Congress chief Pawan Khera difficult the rejection of his request for a clear chit in a case associated to alleged defamatory feedback about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s father and linking the prime minister with main industrialists.

The petition was filed towards a January 5 order of the chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) in Lucknow that had refused to dismiss the case. Khera had challenged the choice on the revisional court docket, which upheld the CJM’s order.

The petition was dismissed by the Lucknow bench of the excessive court docket on December 3 and the order uploaded on Thursday.

Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan dismissed Khera’s plea, saying the Congress chief ought to face the trial.

Opposing Khera’s petition, Authorities Advocate V Okay Singh identified that earlier pleas filed by the Congress chief on related grounds had been already dismissed and the present petition was largely based mostly on the identical prayers and grounds.

The case was associated to “derogatory” feedback made by Khera in February 2023 about Modi’s father and linking the prime minister with main industrialists.

FIRs had been filed on February 20, 2023 on the Cantonment police station in Varanasi and the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow. One other case was registered on February 22, 2023 at a police station in Assam.

Khera had challenged these FIRs earlier than the Supreme Courtroom, which transferred all of the circumstances to the Hazratganj police station on March 20, 2023 for additional investigation. Following the investigation, a chargesheet was filed towards the Congress chief within the CJM’s court docket in Lucknow.

With the dismissal of his plea, Khera will now need to face the trial within the case.