New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Tuesday summoned the judicial records of a case in which a trial court had dismissed a plea against textiles minister Smriti Irani which alleged that she had misrepresented about her educational qualifications before the Election Commission. Garg called for records of the trial court, which in October last year had dismissed a complaint against Irani. The court directed that records be produced before it on the next date of hearing on 13 September. While declining to summon her as an accused, the trial court judge had said that there was a “great delay of around 11 years” in filing the complaint. The petitioner said the trial court order was bad in law and it needed to be set aside.

Source: Mint May 23, 2017 15:33 UTC