The Supreme Court on Wednesday took strong exception to suspended Gujarat IAS officer Pradeep Sharma making more insinuations relating to Narendra Modi’s personal life instead of deleting them from his petition for transferring criminal cases outside the state.
The apex court, which directed him to clearly comply with its 12 May, 2011 order, said the amended petition should have the tenor of its direction and he should delete the statements casting personal allegations on Modi.
‘You added much more instead of deleting. Your amendment should be in tenor with the order of this court. It cannot be like this,’ a bench comprising justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana said, while taking strong objection to Sharma’s amended petition in which he mentioned the incidents of alleged snooping purportedly done at the behest of Amit Shah, the former home minister of Gujarat and Modi’s close aide.
‘The allegations of personal nature must have to go,’ the bench said and added that ‘you (Sharma) are bound by your statement and undertaking given to this court’.
The bench brushed aside the arguments of Sharma’s counsel that when the 12 May, 2011 order was passed there was no whisper of statement about the father asking the authorities in Gujarat to keep her daughter under survelliance.
The bench, which directed Sharma to place by 12 August the amended petition containing averments in tabular form to show that he has deleted the objectionable paragraphs, said he cannot raise the issue of alleged survelliance done on him and the woman for supporting his plea for transfer of five criminal cases outside Gujarat.
‘Today that is not the issue. Today we will go by your statement of 12 May, 2011. What made you to make those statements (about survelliance). You cannot wriggle out of your statement recorded in the order. You have to comply by that statement,’ court said.
The apex court, which directed him to clearly comply with its 12 May, 2011 order, said the amended petition should have the tenor of its direction and he should delete the statements casting personal allegations on Modi.
‘You added much more instead of deleting. Your amendment should be in tenor with the order of this court. It cannot be like this,’ a bench comprising justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana said, while taking strong objection to Sharma’s amended petition in which he mentioned the incidents of alleged snooping purportedly done at the behest of Amit Shah, the former home minister of Gujarat and Modi’s close aide.
‘The allegations of personal nature must have to go,’ the bench said and added that ‘you (Sharma) are bound by your statement and undertaking given to this court’.
The bench brushed aside the arguments of Sharma’s counsel that when the 12 May, 2011 order was passed there was no whisper of statement about the father asking the authorities in Gujarat to keep her daughter under survelliance.
The bench, which directed Sharma to place by 12 August the amended petition containing averments in tabular form to show that he has deleted the objectionable paragraphs, said he cannot raise the issue of alleged survelliance done on him and the woman for supporting his plea for transfer of five criminal cases outside Gujarat.
‘Today that is not the issue. Today we will go by your statement of 12 May, 2011. What made you to make those statements (about survelliance). You cannot wriggle out of your statement recorded in the order. You have to comply by that statement,’ court said.