SC quashes felony case in direction of Parkash Singh Badal, son Sukhbir
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday quashed felony proceedings in direction of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who died two days previously, and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal in a forgery case, saying the summon order issued by the trial courtroom docket 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 docket 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 choice on behalf of the bench acknowledged.
Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal died on Wednesday at a private hospital in Mohali.
He was 95.
The Badals and Cheema had moved the best courtroom docket tough the August 2021 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash the summons in direction of them by further chief judicial Justice of the Peace, Hoshiarpur in a private criticism filed by Social activist Balwant Singh Khera on the prices of forgery, dishonest and concealing data.
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 deal with gurdwaras and the other to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hunt recognition as a political event.
He contended it amounted to dishonest.
On April 11, the best courtroom docket had acknowledged merely being religious would not suggest a person cannot be secular.
It had reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by Badals tough summons issued in direction of them in an alleged forgery case.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday quashed felony proceedings in direction of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who died two days previously, and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal in a forgery case, saying the summon order issued by the trial courtroom docket 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 docket 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 choice on behalf of the bench acknowledged.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal died on Wednesday at a private hospital in Mohali.
He was 95.
The Badals and Cheema had moved the best courtroom docket tough the August 2021 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash the summons in direction of them by further chief judicial Justice of the Peace, Hoshiarpur in a private criticism filed by Social activist Balwant Singh Khera on the prices of forgery, dishonest and concealing data.
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 deal with gurdwaras and the other to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hunt recognition as a political event.
He contended it amounted to dishonest.
On April 11, the best courtroom docket had acknowledged merely being religious would not suggest a person cannot be secular.
It had reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by Badals tough summons issued in direction of them in an alleged forgery case.
