{"id":10782,"date":"2026-04-30T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/not-necessary-to-humiliate-me-by-arrest-pawan-khera-in-sc-amid-passport-row-case-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:52:08","slug":"not-necessary-to-humiliate-me-by-arrest-pawan-khera-in-sc-amid-passport-row-case-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/not-necessary-to-humiliate-me-by-arrest-pawan-khera-in-sc-amid-passport-row-case-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not necessary to humiliate me by arrest\u2019: Pawan Khera in SC amid passport row case | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130628197,imgsize-138326,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/pawan-khera-supreme-court.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Not necessary to humiliate me by arrest\u2019: Pawan Khera in SC amid passport row case\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Thursday reserved its order on Congress leader Pawan Khera\u2019s anticipatory bail plea, with Khera telling the court it was \u201cnot necessary to humiliate him by arrest\u201d in the passport row case linked to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma\u2019s wife.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>During the hearing, Khera told the court that the allegations against him were a matter of trial. He further said, \u201cSome sections invoked against me are bailable, others don&#8217;t require arrest.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Khera also submitted that if he does not get anticipatory bail in the case registered against him in Assam, \u201cthen purpose of pre-arrest bail is gone.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and AS Chandurkar reserved its verdict after hearing arguments from both sides.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Appearing for Khera, senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi said the case did not warrant custodial interrogation and reiterated that arrest was unnecessary.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Opposing the plea, solicitor general Tushar Mehta, representing the Assam government, told the court that Khera had shown \u201cfake\u201d and \u201cdoctored\u201d copies of passports belonging to the chief minister\u2019s wife. He also alleged that Khera had been absconding and disseminating videos, while maintaining that claims of multiple citizenship were false.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The case stems from allegations made by Khera regarding Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, following which criminal complaints were filed against him at the Guwahati crime branch under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Khera has challenged an April 24 order of the Gauhati High Court, which denied him anticipatory bail.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Earlier, the Telangana high court had granted him a seven-day transit anticipatory bail. However, the Assam Police moved the apex court against the relief, following which the Supreme Court stayed the transit bail and directed Khera to approach the Gauhati High Court.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>The top court is now expected to deliver its order on Khera\u2019s anticipatory bail plea in due course.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/not-necessary-to-humiliate-me-by-arrest-pawan-khera-in-sc-amid-passport-row-case\/articleshow\/130628146.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Thursday reserved its order on Congress leader Pawan Khera\u2019s anticipatory bail plea, with Khera telling the court it was \u201cnot necessary to humiliate him by arrest\u201d in the passport row case linked to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma\u2019s wife.During the hearing, Khera told the court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}