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Written by priyank
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Friday, 27 January 2012 03:37 |
Amit Shah seeks SC nod to return to Gujarat
Supreme Court had on October 30, 2010, directed the former minister to leave the state and ordered him to stay out till further order
PTI
Posted On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 02:45:33 AM
Shah was arrested on July 25, 2010, in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh
Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, who was forced to leave the state during the pendency of his trial in Sohrabuddin fake encounter killing case, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking its permission to return.
In an application filed before the apex court, he submitted that living outside his home state for the last 16 months has caused “irreparable hardship” to him and his family members.
Out of state for 16 months
“The applicant is 47 years of age and his entire family stays in Gujarat. In the facts and circumstances of the present case, a person in public life remaining out of his home state for 16 long months is nothing less than punishment more particularly when he is deprived of the warmth, support and co-operation of his family members and close relatives,” he said in his 11-page application. The apex court had on October 30, 2010, directed Shah to leave the state and ordered him to stay out till further order.
‘Irreparable hardship’
Pleading with the apex court to modify its order, Shah said, “He will suffer irreparable injury and hardship if an appropriate order to the effect of modification of order of October 30, 2010, is not made.”
“The applicant has remained outside his own state for approximately 16 months resulting into a situation where one of the largest assembly constituencies in the country, which has reposed faith in the applicant since four consecutive terms, is deprived of its representatives,” he said.
Shah, a close aide of chief minister Narendra Modi, was arrested by CBI on July 25, 2010, and he had spent over three months in Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad. Shah had to quit the Modi government after being slapped with charges of murder and kidnapping in the fake encounter of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi in 2005.
Budget session to begin on February 23
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