{"id":272238,"date":"2019-05-01T06:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272238"},"modified":"2019-05-01T06:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:24:05","slug":"sc-tells-rahul-gandhi-to-apologise-by-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-tells-rahul-gandhi-to-apologise-by-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"SC tells Rahul Gandhi to apologise by Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has told Congress president Rahul Gandhi to file an \u201cadditional affidavit\u201d by Monday tendering an unconditional apology for his claim that it had concurred with his remark \u201cchowkidar chor hai\u201d in connection with alleged wrongdoing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph felt that Rahul had not tendered an unconditional apology but had merely stated \u201cI regret\u201d, that too in brackets, in his affidavit submitted on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContempt is nothing new. Don\u2019t you feel you are contradicting yourself in saying one thing and then denying it? When you make a mistake you must admit it,\u201d Justice Kaul told senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Rahul, during the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has told Congress president Rahul Gandhi to file an \u201cadditional affidavit\u201d by Monday tendering an unconditional apology for his claim that it had concurred with his remark \u201cchowkidar chor hai\u201d in connection with alleged wrongdoing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph felt that Rahul had not tendered an unconditional apology but had merely stated \u201cI regret\u201d, that too in brackets, in his affidavit submitted on April 23. \u201cContempt is nothing new. Don\u2019t you feel you are contradicting yourself in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}