{"id":38122,"date":"2015-06-24T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T09:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38122"},"modified":"2015-06-24T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T09:22:54","slug":"court-takes-cognizance-of-complaint-against-smriti-irani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-takes-cognizance-of-complaint-against-smriti-irani","title":{"rendered":"Court takes cognizance of complaint against Smriti Irani"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38110\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38110\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/complaint-aginst-smriti-irani-court-order-tomorrow\/esmriti\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?fit=301%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"301,167\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"esmriti\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?fit=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?fit=301%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38110 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?resize=300%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Court takes cognizance of complaint against Smriti Irani \" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/esmriti.jpg?w=301&amp;ssl=1 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court takes cognizance of complaint against Smriti Irani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fresh trouble for HRD Minister Smriti Irani, a Delhi court today took cognizance of a complaint filed against her for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain took cognizance of the complaint and fixed the matter for recording of pre-summoning evidence on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is held that the present complaint case is filed under limitation (of time). Cognizance is taken. The matter be now fixed for pre-summoning evidence on August 28,&#8221; the magistrate said.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed by freelance writer Ahmer Khan, who alleged that Irani, in her three affidavits before the Election Commission (EC) while filing nominations for her candidature for Lok Sabha as well as Rajya Sabha polls, had purportedly given different details about her educational qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fresh trouble for HRD Minister Smriti Irani, a Delhi court today took cognizance of a complaint filed against her for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualification. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain took cognizance of the complaint and fixed the matter for recording of pre-summoning evidence on August 28. &#8220;It is held that the 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