{"id":273576,"date":"2019-05-09T04:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T04:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273576"},"modified":"2019-05-09T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T05:25:10","slug":"rahul-tenders-unconditional-apology-for-attributing-chowkidar-quote-to-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-tenders-unconditional-apology-for-attributing-chowkidar-quote-to-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul tenders unconditional apology for attributing &#8216;chowkidar&#8217; quote to SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing to the apex court the &#8216;chowkidar chor hai&#8217; remark in the Rafale verdict. <\/p>\n<p>He also sought closure of the criminal contempt proceedings against him on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi. <\/p>\n<p>In a fresh three-page affidavit, Gandhi said he holds the apex court in the &#8220;highest esteem and respect&#8221; and that he has never sought to do anything which interferes with the process of administration of justice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deponent (Rahul Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to this court. The deponent further states that any such attributions were entirely unintentional, non-wilful and inadvertent,&#8221; Gandhi said in his affidavit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing to the apex court the &#8216;chowkidar chor hai&#8217; remark in the Rafale verdict. He also sought closure of the criminal contempt proceedings against him on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi. In a fresh three-page affidavit, Gandhi said he holds the apex court in the &#8220;highest esteem and respect&#8221; and that he has never sought to do anything which interferes with the process of administration of justice. &#8220;The deponent (Rahul Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to this court. The deponent [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273576","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=273576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}