Court snubs lawyer for asking Shabir Shah to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’

A Delhi court today snubbed an overenthusiastic prosecutor for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for asking separatist leader Shabir Shah to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ to prove his patriotism, saying that it was not a television studio. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma chided the lawyer for his remark and later allowed the ED’s plea for extension by six days Shah’s custodial interrogation in a decade-old money laundering case. Counsel for the ED Rajeev Awasthi alleged that Shah (64) was ruining the country by using money to fund terror and breached…

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