{"id":305016,"date":"2018-11-02T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305016"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:29:10","slug":"sc-issues-notice-to-rajasthan-cm-raje-her-son-in-dholpur-land-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-issues-notice-to-rajasthan-cm-raje-her-son-in-dholpur-land-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues notice to Rajasthan CM Raje, her son in Dholpur land deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-300527 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-375x420.jpg 375w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on November 2 issued a notice to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her son Dushyant Singh in connection with the selling of government land to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for widening a national highway in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The top court was hearing a plea seeking registration of FIR against them for allegedly getting compensation of Rs 1.97 crore by selling government land near Dholpur Palace to NHAI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An SC bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi sought a response from Rajasthan CM and her son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the petition filed, Raje was not a public servant at the time of the alleged commission of the offense in 2010 and she was the leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan legislative assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition alleged that CM and her son illegally claimed ownership of a 567 square -metre of land near Dholpur Palace and sold it to NHAI for Rs 1.97 crore and had caused the loss to the state exchequer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In August, the Delhi High Court had dismissed a plea seeking an FIR and a CBI probe against Raje and her son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, a Rajasthan based lawyer Srijana Shrestha filed an appeal in the top court challenging the Delhi HC order which had dismissed the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on November 2 issued a notice to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her son Dushyant Singh in connection with the selling of government land to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for widening a national highway in 2010. \u00a0The top court was hearing a plea seeking registration of FIR against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[5498,9450,4498,1478,9449,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305017,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305016\/revisions\/305017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}