Congress leader Pawan Khera today filed a petition in the Gauhati High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against him by the Assam Police.
The court is likely to hear his plea and pass an order in the next couple of days.
The crime branch of Guwahati police had registered the case against Khera after Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, filed an FIR accusing the Congress leader of using forged document to malign her image.
At a press conference on April 5, Khera had claimed that Riniki Bhuyan Sharma held three foreign passports, undeclared properties in Dubai, and shell companies in the United States.
After she filed the FIR, an Assam police team conducted search at Khera’s New Delhi residence. The police team, however, couldn’t question him as he was not at home. Reports indicate that Khera is in Congress-ruled Telangana, where the Assam police team will need the local police’s permission to carry out an investigation.
