Mobilenews24x7 Bureau (Analysis)
In every politics the jibes at the opposition or at the ruling has often been seen getting personal and so that becomes more during polls. Like, during West Bengal Assembly polls it was no less frontal when jibes like ..’didi, oh didi.. ranted the airs and there was no hullabaloo as in case of Pawan Khera, the Congress leader.
Whatever may have been the intent but the Congress senior leader and spokesman, Pawan Khera could have escaped the guilt and embarrassment by saying just sorry. Anyway the water flowed down the bounds and Khera was arrested by wrongly uttering the middle name of the Prime Minister.
Khera said ‘Gautamdas’instead of Damodardas, which later Khera had reportedly said as slip of tongue. Anyway Khera was given an interim bail.
Despite being a frontal remark but obviously was a lighter jest but surely not a sinister one. For which Khera was deplaned and arrested. However, the Supreme Court was granted an interim bail.
However, a different inference have been drawn that the alleged proximity of Modi with Gautam Adani may be the undertone.
But does that amount to be a serious offence to invite arrest, it is for the legal brains to conclude. However, how can Khera’s lapse invite such an extreme step as getting deplaned and arrest?
Reportedly, Khera’s arrest came after cases were registered against him in Assam and Uttar Pradesh under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153A, 153 B(1) (promoting enmity on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, etc), 500 (defamation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (1) and (2) (statements conducing to public mischief). Was that amount to criminal conspiracy?
Perhaps, not a tenable view and sounds little excess by any stretch of legal interpretation. ? Or even that mocking him promotes enmity on grounds of religion, race, and so on, or that it shows the intent to commit breach of peace?
