Rahul Gandhi ‘unconditionally apologises’ to apex court for wrongly attributing ‘chowkidar’ remark to it

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday unconditionally apologised to the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing phrase 'chowkidar chor hai' to the court. "The Deponent (Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to the Supreme Court. The Deponent further states that any such attributions were entirely unintentional, non-willful and inadvertent," Mr. Gandhi submitted in a three-page additional affidavit. The case is scheduled for hearing on May 10 along with the Rafale case review petitions before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. On April 10, Mr. Gandhi made the remark to media in reaction to a Supreme Court verdict allowing the maintainability of the Rafale review petitions . In his affidavit, Mr. Gandhi, through advocate Sunil Fernandes, urged that the court may "graciously be pleased to accept the instant affidavit and close the present contempt proceedings". On April 30, the court was categorical that Mr. Gandhi had to either offer a clear-cut apology or brave criminal contempt for attributing phrase "chowkidar chor hai", targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to the court. "Any person can make a mistake, but having made it, you should go ahead and admit it," Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on the Bench had told senior… Read full this story

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