The
Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to Rahul Gandhi, the Uttar Pradesh
Government and four others on a petition filed by a former MLA challenging
Rs 50 lakh fine slapped on him by the Allahabad High Court in an alleged sexual
exploitation case.
A
Bench of Justices V S Sirpurkar and T S Thakur while staying the high court
order, which had also directed a CBI probe against the former legislator, asked
the respondents to file their replies within four weeks.
Former
Samajwadi Party MLA from Madhya Pradesh Kishore Samrite had challenged the high
court order, saying it was illegal and arbitrary and issued without application
of mind.
The
Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court had last month slapped a penalty of Rs
50 lakh on Samrite who had moved a habeas corpus petition against Rahul
alleging he had kept in captivity a girl and her parents, which later turned
out to be false.
The
high court passed the order after the girl, Sukanya, who according to the
petitioner was held captive by Rahul, denied any such incident when she was
produced in court.
Samrite
had alleged that Sukanya and her parents were held captive by Rahul and
sought directions to the police for producing them in court.
A
similar petition was filed by Gajendra Pal Singh, who claimed to be a relative
of Sukanya, after which the court ordered the DGP to produce the girl and her
parents before it.
The
girl told the court that her actual name is Kirti Singh and that Balram Singh
and Sushila are her parents and their identification was done by in charge of
Amethi police station.
Kirti
told the court that neither she nor her parents were under illegal detention of
any person nor has she any information regarding the news item being displayed
by the website.
On
the basis of deposition made by Kirti, the court imposed the hefty cost on the
petitioner and taking suo moto cognisance of an effort to defame a high profile
personality, ordered a CBI probe.>>>>
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