NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday quashed legal proceedings towards Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who died two days in the past, and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal in a forgery case, saying the summons issued by the trial courtroom was “nothing but abuse of process of law”. A bench of Justices M R Shah and C T Ravikumar, which had reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by Badals and senior Akali chief Daljit Singh Cheema on April 11, quashed the summons issued by the Hoshiarpur trial courtroom in Punjab and upheld by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
“The summoning order passed by the trial court against the appellants (Badals and Cheema) is nothing but abuse of process of law,” Justice Shah, who pronounced the decision on behalf of the bench mentioned. Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal died on Wednesday at a personal hospital in Mohali. He was 95.
The Badals and Cheema had moved the highest courtroom difficult the August 2021 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash the summons towards them by further chief judicial Justice of the Peace, Hoshiarpur in a personal criticism filed by Social activist Balwant Singh Khera on the costs of forgery, dishonest and concealing info.
Khera had filed a criticism in 2009 alleging that the SAD has two constitutions — one which it submitted to the Gurdwara Election Commission for registration as a celebration to handle gurdwaras and the opposite to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hunt recognition as a political celebration. He contended it amounted to dishonest.
On April 11, the highest courtroom had mentioned merely being non secular doesn’t imply an individual can’t be secular. It had reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by Badals difficult summons issued towards them in an alleged forgery case.
