lawyers of the Congress MlA, Chiranjib Biswal, on Tuesday appeared in the SDJM court here for him in connection with an election-related case filed against Biswal by former BJD MlA Bishnu Das.
With this, Biswal got a relief as Das’ lawyer had filed a petition seeking issuance of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against him after he failed to appear before the court despite personal appearance summons were sent to him in different addresses.Biswal’s lawyers submitted a petition seeking an order dispensing personal appearance of Biswal in the court. The court received the petition on record and adjourned its hearing till January 2, 2015.
According to reports, former MlA Bishnu Das, who lost the Jagatsinghpur Assembly seat to Biswal in the 2014 election, had filed a case against Biswal alleging that he had submitted false information regarding his properties and income of spouse in his affidavit during filing of nomination papers.Das’ lawyer Souri Prasad Biswal on December 9 informed the court that Biswal is repeatedly avoiding to appear in the court even though summons were issued in his MlA colony and Assembly Secretariat addresses. The court asked complainant lawyer to adduce evidences regarding services of summons and posted the matter till December 16 2014.On Tuesday, complainant lawyer Biswal supplied evidences that summons had been served to Biswal a month back and pleaded the court to issue a NBW against Biswal soon.