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The Supreme Court stayed the transit anticipatory bail granted to Congress leader Pawan Khera by the Telangana High Court in a case registered by the Assam Police. The bench said it was “surprised” by the High Court’s April 10 order.

Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, wife of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, had filed a first information report against Khera after he claimed on April 5 that she holds passports in several countries.

Appearing for the Assam Police in the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that Khera filing his plea in Telangana was a “complete abuse of process”. Read on.

In a fresh affidavit, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has said that Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma should recuse herself from hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s challenge to his discharge in the Delhi liquor policy case as her children were empanelled as counsels with the Union government. They are both allocated cases by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is appearing before the court for the CBI, noted Kejriwal.

He argued that the apprehensions of bias are “direct,...

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