The Supreme Court stayed the proceedings on Tuesday, going on in a trial court of Hoshiarpur, against Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, his father Prakash Singh Badal and former minister Daljit Singh Cheema in a case related to forgery over an undertaking submitted to the Election Commission of India.
Notice was also issued to the complainant by Justice S.A. Nazeer and Justice V. Ramasubramanian on the petitions challenging the quashing of criminal case against them.
A case had been filed in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Hoshiarpur in Punjab by social activist Balwant Singh Khera in 2009, alleging SAD of possessing more than one constitution for the party.
Khera had alleged that the Constitution submitted by the party to the Gurdwara Election Commission and the one it submitted with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to seek recognition as a political party were different.
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The complaint further alleged that SAD had given a false undertaking to the ECI that it had amended its constitution to incorporate principles of socialism and secularism, whereas it continued its activities as a ‘Panthic’ party and participated in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections.
Earlier on August 27 last year, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had disposed of the petition filed by Sukhbir Badal and others against an order of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Hoshiarpur, who had summoned them in the case.
Badal then moved the Supreme Court.