New Delhi: Hours after arrest by the Assam Police, Congress leader Pawan Khera was able to walk free after Delhis Dwarka court released him on bail.
The Supreme Court allowed Khera to have interim bail after Congress sought the top courts intervention.
Pawan Khera was arrested by Assam Police at Delhi airport over FIR filed against him for his alleged disparaging comments about PM Modi at a press briefing on the Adani-Hindenburg row on February 17.
Will continue putting our efforts to save the country and its constitutional values, said Khera while walking out on bail.
Without furnishing a copy of FIR and notice, I was deboarded from the aircraft and arrested by Assam Police in an illegal manner. I have complete trust in the judicial system which protected my freedom of expression today, Khera was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI.
Congress counsel senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi approached the Supreme Court over the matter and apprised the judges that the Congress leader has apologised and said that it was a mistake, a slip of tongue.
The apex court accepted that taken on their face value, the spoken words by Pawan Khera did not lead to the sections under which the FIR has been lodged. The court ordered the transfer and clubbing of all FIRs registered against Khera.
