Assam CM Sarma criticises Congress, urges support for BJP in upcoming by-elections
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took aim at the Congress, accusing it of obstructing development and lacking commitment to public welfare.
A Delhi court on Saturday granted regular bail to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was summoned as an accused in the case, told the court that he had already been granted anticipatory bail in the case by a sessions court on July 5.
Tharoor appeared before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal in pursuance of the summons issued against him last month.
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The court has directed the Congress leader to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and one surety of like amount as directed by the sessions court and converted the interim relief to regular bail, reported PTI.
The court has listed the matter for further hearing on July 26.
He was granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court on Thursday with direction not to leave the country without permission, nor to tamper with evidence or try to influence the witnesses.
Pushkar, 51, died under mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in south Delhi on January 17, 2014, days after she alleged that Tharoor was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist.
On May 14, police chargesheeted Tharoor under sections 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code, pertaining to abetment to suicide and cruelty to wife, which entails a jail term that could extend up to 10 years.
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