A court here today rejected the petition filed by a member of Aam Aadmi Party seeking legal action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for filing a ‘defective’ affidavit during the 2012 Gujarat Assembly polls.<\/p>\n
Judge G N Rana of Ahmedabad district sessions court rejected the plea of Nishant Verma mainly on the ground of delay in the filing of the petition.<\/p>\n
The court also noted that Verma, as a voter, resided in satellite constituency while his complaint relates to Maninagar seat.<\/p>\n
Modi, who had contested the 2012 Assembly election from Maninagar here, left the column about the spouse blank in his affidavit accompanying the nomination, the petition said.<\/p>\n
He disclosed the name of his wife, Jashodaben, for the first time when he filed nomination from Vadodara during last year’s Lok Sabha elections, it pointed out.<\/p>\n
Verma contended that Modi thus committed an offence under the Representation of People Act by not disclosing facts about his marital status in 2012.<\/p>\n
He moved the court in April last year after the Ranip police here refused to register first information report against Modi. He wanted the court to initiate legal action against Modi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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