Gujarat HC to hear case against Salman Khurshid on 31 July

Ahmedabad, 20 July 2013

Gujarat High Court has taken details of a case against union minister Salman Khurshid on record. The case will come for hearing on 31 July.

Vadodara based lawyer Dr. Mahesh Thakar has filed plea against union Minister Salman Khurshid for his alleged unconstitutional remarks aired on TV and published in newspapers in year 2011.

Thackeray read and watched Salman Khurshid’s remarks(in video above) in the media, and first filed a plea against it in Vadodara Civil Court and later in the district court. He eventually filed a plea in the Gujarat High Court where hearing shall be held on 31st July.

“I have been made the Law Minister and asked to work with the pen. I will work with the pen but also with blood,” Khurshid had said at a closed-door function in his constituency in Farrkhabad in year 2011 whose footage was aired by some news channels.

Referring to Kejriwal’s threat to stage a protest in his home constituency from November 1, 2011 Khurshid had said, “Let them come and visit Farrukhabad. But let him also return from Farrukhabad.”

Kejriwal had alleged that Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, an NGO run by Khurshid and his wife Louise, was involved financial bunglings of over Rs.71 lakh, a charge dismissed by Salman.