The Delhi High Court listed for hearing on August 7 a public curiosity litigation in search of a course to the CBI to research and prosecute Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and metropolis Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. File
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The Delhi High Court on May 10 listed for hearing on August 7 a public curiosity litigation in search of a course to the CBI to research and prosecute Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making “false statements” against the Centre relating to mortgage waiver to a number of industrialists.
A Bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad granted time to petitioner Surjit Singh Yadav to file sure paperwork in relation to his plea.
The counsel for petitioner seeks time to file further paperwork. List on August 7, mentioned the court docket.
The lawyer for the petitioner mentioned “write off” was not similar as “waive off” and within the current occasion, it was wrongly publicised within the media that loans of a number of crores given to industrialists have been “waived off”.
The petitioner, who claimed to be a farmer and a social employee, mentioned in his plea that “write off” was an everyday observe by banks to scrub up their stability sheets with a “hope to recover it later” and the publication of “misleading statements” by Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Kejriwal by sure information organisations was a “deliberate attempt to create a negative image” of the Centre, which has resulted in making a unfavourable picture of the nation.
“Petitioner had also come across, around five years ago, on a TV Channel a statement made by Sh. Rahul Gandhi (Respondent No.2) regarding waving off loan by the Central Government to the tune of Rs. 8 Lakh Crore of 5-10 industrialists. Respondent No.5 had also carried out news of Delhi Chief Minister Sh. Arvind Kejriwal (Respondent No.3) who had made a statement to the effect that loans of many industrialists were waived off by the Central Government and Lakhs of Crores of taxes of industrialists have also been waived off by the Central Government,” the petition said.
It additionally mentioned that there have been information articles “published more than two years ago that loans of 50 loan defaulters have been waived off and that the loan amount was to the tune of ₹68,000 crore, which included the name of Mehul Choksi”.
The plea said that there was an try by the political leaders and media to convey a flawed impression concerning the picture of the Central Government by twisting the info to swimsuit their agendas and the “fabricated news items” have broken the picture of the nation within the eyes of the world.
The petition asserted that “factually wrong statements” by political personalities solid a unfavourable impression within the minds of residents, praying that such information articles must be eliminated.
“It is, therefore, most respectfully prayed that this Hon’ble Court may graciously be pleased to direct the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] to register a complaint and investigate and prosecute the Respondent No. 2 and 3 [Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Kejriwal] for making misleading and false statements which were made with the intent to damage the image and credibility of the Republic of India,” the plea additional said.
