Congress chief Pawan Khera Photograph Credit score: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Supreme Courtroom of India on Friday (April 17, 2026) allowed Congress chief Pawan Khera to file an utility for anticipatory bail instantly earlier than the competent court docket in Assam in reference to an FIR filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, spouse of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, over allegations that she held a number of passports.
If such an utility for pre-arrest bail is filed, the highest court docket stated the court docket involved in Assam could be influenced in any means neither by the grant of one-week interim transit bail allowed to Mr. Khera by the Telangana Excessive Courtroom nor the keep of the Excessive Courtroom order by the Supreme Courtroom on April 15.
Printed – April 17, 2026 01:12 pm IST