{"id":7912,"date":"2026-04-24T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/passport-row-gauhati-hc-rejects-congress-leader-pawan-kheras-anticipatory-bail-plea-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:51:03","slug":"passport-row-gauhati-hc-rejects-congress-leader-pawan-kheras-anticipatory-bail-plea-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/passport-row-gauhati-hc-rejects-congress-leader-pawan-kheras-anticipatory-bail-plea-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport row: Gauhati HC rejects Congress leader Pawan Khera&#8217;s anticipatory bail plea | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\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-130484548,imgsize-73408,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/pawan-khera.jpg\" alt=\"Passport row: Gauhati HC rejects Congress leader Pawan Khera's anticipatory bail plea\" title=\"Pawan Khera\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Friday rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/congress-leader\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Congress leader<\/a> Pawan Khera\u2019s anticipatory bail plea in a case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/himanta-biswa-sarma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>The FIR stems from Khera\u2019s allegations that Sharma held multiple foreign passports and undisclosed overseas assets. <!-- -->During the previous hearing, Khera\u2019s counsel, led by Abhishek Manu Singhvi, argued that he was not a flight risk and that arrest was unnecessary, calling the case politically motivated.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>The Assam government, represented by Advocate General Devajit Lon Saikia, opposed relief, arguing the case involved serious offences including cheating and forgery, not merely defamation. The court had earlier reserved its order after extensive arguments from both sides.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/><span class=\"em strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">This is a developing story. Details to follow&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/passport-row-gauhati-hc-reject-congress-leader-pawan-kheras-anticipatory-bail-plea\/articleshow\/130484574.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Friday rejected Congress leader Pawan Khera\u2019s anticipatory bail plea in a case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The FIR stems from Khera\u2019s allegations that Sharma held multiple foreign passports and undisclosed overseas assets. During the previous hearing, Khera\u2019s counsel, led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7912","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\/7912","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=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}