File photograph of Congress chief Pawan Khera.
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The Supreme Court on March 20, 2023 clubbed three FIRs lodged against Congress chief Pawan Khera for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and transferred them to the Hazratganj police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.
Extending the interim bail till April 10, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and Ok B Pardiwala took observe of the information that three FIRs have been lodged against Khera.
Out of the three FIRs, two have been lodged on the Cantonment police station in Varanasi and the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow. The third FIR was lodged in Assam.
The apex court docket bench directed that the three FIRs stand transferred to Hazratganj police station in Lucknow.
Khera, whose interim bail was prolonged till April 10, can have to seem earlier than the court docket of competent jurisdiction in Lucknow to search common bail within the matter.
The apex court docket, from time to time, had been extending the interim bail of Khera who was arrested by the Assam Police on February 23 in connection along with his alleged remarks against Modi made at a press convention in Mumbai on February 17.
The Congress spokesperson was arrested from the Delhi airport after he was de-boarded from a airplane that was supposed to take him to Raipur. He obtained bail from a magisterial court docket right here on February 23 after the CJI-led bench granted him interim bail throughout an pressing listening to earlier within the day.