Criminal proceedings against Geelani for perjury stayed
May 25th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday stayed the criminal proceedings against Delhi University (DU) teacher S.A.R.Geelani, who was acquitted in 2001 Parliament House attack case, on the charge of giving false evidence in court.
Issuing a notice to Delhi Police, Justice Vipin Sanghi stayed the proceedings till Aug 13.
Geelani had challenged the order of a sessions judge for initiating criminal proceedings against him for perjury. He was charged with giving a wrong address while standing surety for an accused in a bomb blast case.
The trial judge took a serious view of Geelani giving wrong address in an affidavit filed before the court and referred the matter to the chief metropolitan magistrate for appropriate action against him.
Geelani, a professor at the university’s Zakir Husain College, had mentioned his address as Moti Masjid at Zakir Nagar in the bail bond of Mirza Iftikhar Hussain, an accused in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. Hussain was acquitted in the case last month.
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