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Arrest warrant against Indian mMinister in defamation case

Xinhua, September 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

A court in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal Thursday issued an arrest warrant against India's Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti.

Chief judicial magistrate Bhubhaskar Yadav issued the non-bailable arrest warrant against the woman minister for failing to appear before his court in a defamation case for nearly a year.

The court has also asked Bhopal's top cop to execute the warrant within seven days and present the minister before it by Oct. 19.

The case was filed by former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and a senior office-bearer of India's main opposition Congress party, Digvijay Singh, in 2003.

Singh had filed the defamation case against Bharti for levelling "false allegations" of him being involved in a financial scam and terming him as the most corrupt "Chief Minister of India." Enditem