A Delhi court on Tuesday stayed an order summoning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain in the rape case filed against him. .Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) MK Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Courts issued notice in the revision plea filed by Hussain. The matter will be next heard on November 8..On October 10, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta had taken cognizance of offences under Sections 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison to commit offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and summoned Hussain. He had been ordered to appear before the court on October 20.The court had refused to accept the cancellation report filed by the Delhi Police and accepted the protest petition filed by the complainant..Hussain challenged this order before the Sessions Court.After hearing the case, ASJ Nagpal said that the operation of the magistrate's order and further proceedings will remain stayed."The revision petition is now directed to be listed for hearing at 10.30 am on 08.11.2023 and TCR be requisitioned atleast two days prior to the said date," the order stated..The allegation is that in April 2018, Shahnawaz took the complainant to a farm house, intoxicated her and committed rape on her. He also allegedly made a video of the act and threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the incident.It was the complainant's case that the FIR in the case was registered only after the intervention of the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court..Advocates Vikas Arora, Bansuri Swaraj, Siddhesh Kotwal, Deshraj, Ana Upadhyay and Tejasvi Gupta appeared for Hussain before the Sessions Court..[Read Order]
A Delhi court on Tuesday stayed an order summoning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain in the rape case filed against him. .Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) MK Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Courts issued notice in the revision plea filed by Hussain. The matter will be next heard on November 8..On October 10, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta had taken cognizance of offences under Sections 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison to commit offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and summoned Hussain. He had been ordered to appear before the court on October 20.The court had refused to accept the cancellation report filed by the Delhi Police and accepted the protest petition filed by the complainant..Hussain challenged this order before the Sessions Court.After hearing the case, ASJ Nagpal said that the operation of the magistrate's order and further proceedings will remain stayed."The revision petition is now directed to be listed for hearing at 10.30 am on 08.11.2023 and TCR be requisitioned atleast two days prior to the said date," the order stated..The allegation is that in April 2018, Shahnawaz took the complainant to a farm house, intoxicated her and committed rape on her. He also allegedly made a video of the act and threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the incident.It was the complainant's case that the FIR in the case was registered only after the intervention of the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court..Advocates Vikas Arora, Bansuri Swaraj, Siddhesh Kotwal, Deshraj, Ana Upadhyay and Tejasvi Gupta appeared for Hussain before the Sessions Court..[Read Order]
