Assam court issues bailable warrant of arrest against Kejriwal

The Diphu Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court issued bailable warrant of arrest against Kejriwal, who was earlier summoned to appear before the court.

Earlier, the court had asked the Delhi CM to appear before it on Apr 7.

Following it, his counsel sought time from the court for his client.

The counsel of the Delhi Chief Minister had again filed a petition seeking more time for Kejriwal to appear before the court, but the court rejecting the petition and issued bailable warrant of arrest against Kejriwal.

Kejriwal’s lawer showing the ground in the petition that, it is not possible for his client to leave Delhi due to the Municipality election in Delhi and his client is presently the Chief Minister of Delhi, NCR and due to the nature of his works.

The criminal defamation case registered following a case lodged by Surjya Rongphar, a BJP leader and Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) against the AAP leader under sections 499/500/501 IPC on December 26 last year.

Meanwhile Surjya Rongphar said that, Delhi CM Arvind kejriwal had prayed through his counsel for some time and filed a petition and sought more time, but the court rejected it.

“Kejriwal on December 15 last year tweets that PM Modi has passed only 12th standard, and thereafter degrees are fake. Kejriwal's remarks on PM is totally baseless and misleading. So I had filed a criminal defamation case against the Delhi Chief Minister for his baseless remarks on PM,” Rongphar said.

Kejriwal tweeted," Nehi... Modi ji 12th pass hai... Uski baad ki degree farzi hai."

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)