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THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
PARTHIVJYOTI SAIKIA
Pawan Khera S/o H. L. Khera – Appellant
Versus
State of Assam Represented By The Learned PP, Assam – Respondent
ORDER(CAV)
Heard Dr. A.M. Singhvi and Mr. K.N. Choudhury, learned senior counsels representing the petitioner. Also heard Mr. D. Saikia, Senior Advocate and the learned Advocate General, Assam.
2. This is an application under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023, whereby the petitioner Shri Pawan Khera has prayed for pre-arrest bail in respect of Crime Branch P.S. Case No.04/2026 under Sections 175/ 3(5)/ 3(6)/ 318/ 336(4)/ 337/ 338/ 340/341(1)/351(1)/352/353/356 and 61(2) of BNS, 2023.
3. The petitioner Shri Pawan Khera is an Office Bearer of Indian National Congress. On 5th April, 2026, he attended a Press Conference at Guwahati. In that Press Conference, by showing some documents, Shri Khera claimed that Smti. Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the wife of the Chief Minister of Assam holds Passports of Egypt, United Arab Emirates and of Antigua & Barbuda. Shri Khera also claimed that Smti. Riniki Bhuyan Sarma floated a company at Wyoming in the United States of America and also invested more than Rs.50,000 crores.
4. In order to make those claims, Shri Pawan Khera had shown different documents, which he claimed, that those documents were collected by his associates.
5. Aggrieved by the accusations, Smti.
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