Overview
- The Gauhati High Court, which heard the case Tuesday, reserved its decision on Pawan Khera’s request for anticipatory bail.
- The court rebuked the Assam government for not filing a reply and noted the Advocate General’s absence during the hearing.
- Assam’s Advocate General argued the case involves serious offences like cheating and forgery and said Khera could flee if granted protection.
- Khera’s lawyers said he is not a flight risk and called the case political vendetta, stressing that arrest is unnecessary for a document-based probe.
- The FIR followed Khera’s April 5 allegations about the chief minister’s wife and, after a Telangana transit-bail order, the Supreme Court on April 15 stayed that relief and told him to seek bail in Assam.