New Delhi, May 04: A Delhi court today ordered start of criminal proceedings against college teacher S A R Geelani, who was acquitted in 2002 Parliament attack case, on the charge of giving false evidence in a judicial proceedings.
Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma ordered start of the proceedings for perjury against Geelani for giving wrong address while standing surety for an accused.
Sharma took a serious view of Geelani’s giving wrong address in the affidavit filed before it saying he wasted time of the court as well as of the police.
Geelani had mentioned his address as Moti Masjid at Zakir Nagar in the bail bond of accused Mirza Iftikhar Hussian who was recently acquitted in 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case.
–Agencies