Siddhu in danger
Navjot Singh Sidhu is a former international cricket player, a politician for the Indian National Congress, and a television personality. He served as the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee’s previous president. He formerly served as the State of Punjab’s Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, a former minister of Punjab and prominent Congress figure, filed a new application at the Ludhiana district court on Tuesday.
What is the issue?
In opposition to a Ludhiana court’s demand for his actual presence, Sidhu filed a petition with the High Court. Even the appeal of the summons order was rejected. A thorough HC order is anticipated.
On Wednesday, the Punjab and Haryana high court overturned a court order from Ludhiana that had ordered former minister and Congress politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to appear in a complaint matter. Regarding Bharat Bhushan Ashu, a former minister for the Congress.
In response to a Ludhiana court’s insistence on his actual presence, Sidhu filed a high court appeal. Even his appeal of the summoning order was rejected. We’re waiting on a detailed order from the HC. He has been permitted to testify via video conference, according to attorneys involved in the case. Sidhu requested permission to testify in front of the Ludhiana court via video conference, citing his bad health and security concerns. Sidhu had maintained that despite receiving several threats to his life and having access to Z+ security, it was still challenging for him to testify in court.
He begged to have his testimony as a witness videotaped using In the alleged CLU case against his party colleague Bharat Bhushan Ashu, video conferencing was done “bearing in view threats to his life.” Sidhu has already had three of these pleas dismissed, two by the trial court and one by the session court in a revision petition.
Siddhu in danger of life
Sidhu has previously pleaded not to testify as a witness in the case, citing “danger to life” and “no official relationship with the Punjab government” as justifications. Additionally, he had stated that he was unable to personally attend the hearing but that, if necessary, his statement could be recorded by video conference. Sidhu’s presence “was important in order to evaluate things from accurate perspective,” the court had stated, rejecting his pleas.
Sidhu’s new application was presented at the chief justice’s trial court. “The applicant has received threats to his life even before the period he started serving the term granted to him and… Z+ security was provided to him by the government of Punjab, which was also suggested by the Central Government.
He has once more requested that his statement be captured on camera in accordance with the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s regulations.
CLU scam
Former DSP Balwinder Singh Sekhon, who was fired, filed the lawsuit against former food and civil supplies minister Ashu, alleging that the former minister had threatened and intimidated him while he was investigating the alleged CLU scam in Ludhiana. Sekhon supplied a file containing the investigation report for the case, however, it is currently “lost” from the workplace.
of the local government division of Punjab. Sidhu has been called before the court as a witness because the investigation was started and finished while he was the local body’s minister.
The court ruled that Navjot Sidhu is not even listed as an opposing party or an accused party in the complaint and that there is no evidence that he was seeking to stall the case.
The Punjab and Haryana high court has stated that the Trial court made a “grave error” by insisting on Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s actual presence in a complaint matter before the Ludhiana court. “..it remained unaware as to why the public purse should be burdened by requesting that the state fund the cost of the complainant’s witness in a completely private dispute as asserted,”
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