{"id":310973,"date":"2019-04-02T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310973"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:36:00","slug":"whats-the-urgency-sc-declines-urgent-hearing-on-hardik-patels-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/whats-the-urgency-sc-declines-urgent-hearing-on-hardik-patels-request\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What\u2019s the urgency?\u2019: SC declines urgent hearing on Hardik Patel\u2019s request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-310974 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hardik-patel-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/hardik-patel-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/hardik-patel.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined urgent hearing of Patidar leader Hardik Patel&#8217;s plea seeking a suspension of his conviction so that he can contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;What&#8217;s the urgency now,&#8221; the top court asked, pointing out his conviction in a 2015 case relating to rioting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench also comprising Justice Navin Sinha and Justice M M Shantanagoudar told the counsel appearing for Patel that there was no urgency in hearing the matter as the high court order was passed in August 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patel, 25, who joined the Congress party in March 2019 had\u00a0moved the top court after his plea for stay was rejected by Gujarat High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last year,\u00a0Patel was awarded two years in jail\u00a0by a lower court in Gujarat for rioting in 2015, during Patidar quota protests that he led.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The last date for filing of nominations is April 4.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined urgent hearing of Patidar leader Hardik Patel&#8217;s plea seeking a suspension of his conviction so that he can contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. &#8220;What&#8217;s the urgency now,&#8221; the top court asked, pointing out his conviction in a 2015 case relating to rioting. The matter was mentioned for urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[3852,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310973"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310979,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310973\/revisions\/310979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}