Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the state police was doing their job by trailing Pawan Khera in connection with a case filed by the former’s wife over allegations that she held multiple passports and offshore properties.
Sarma also took a swipe at state Congress president Gaurav Gogoi over the British nationality of his wife and children and asked how a person who “could not have an Indian family serve us”.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati, he said, “We have put the police after Khera. Whom else will we task it with? It is not the ULFA that is after him; it is the police. If there is an FIR, it is the duty of the police to act on it.”
“Police are slaves of the law, and they’re going to the house of a person named in a case, which is legal… The police are paid salaries to go to the houses of criminals,” he said.
Sarma was responding to Khera, claiming that the chief minister has “unleashed” the police against him for making allegations against his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma.
A team of the Assam Police searched the Congress leader’s Delhi residence on Tuesday, acting on a complaint lodged by the chief minister’s wife. They, however, could not find Khera, who is believed to be in Hyderabad. Khera today got anticipatory bail for one week in this case from the Telangana High Court.
