CM's wife passport row: SC refuses to protect Pawan Khera, asks him to move Assam court

NEW DELHI: (Apr 17) In two consecutive legal setbacks, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain Congress leader Pawan Khera's plea seeking protection from arrest till April 20 in a case lodged against him for levelling charges against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife that she possesses multiple passports.

The top court asked Khera to move a court of competent jurisdiction in Assam for anticipatory bail in the case and made clear that the court there will hear his plea without taking note of adverse remarks, if any, made by it and the Telangana High Court.

At a press conference on April 5, Khera alleged that the Assam chief minister's wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, has multiple passports and foreign property, which were not declared in Sarma's affidavit for the April 9 A