CWG: Kalmadi to move plea to attend Parliament in HC

New Delhi, Jul 28 (PTI) Indian National Congress MP
and sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief
Suresh Kalmadi Thursday withdrew his plea from the trial
court, seeking permission to attend the Monsoon Session of
Indian Parliament, saying he will approach the Delhi High
Court for the same.
Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Judge
Talwant Singh accepted Kalmadi's submission that the high
court was the appropriate forum to decide his plea for custody
parole to attend Parliament.
"The application dated July 22 of Suresh Kalmadi
seeking permission to attend the eighth session of Parliament
is dismissed as withdrawn," the judge said.
66-year-old Kalmadi, who is a Lok Sabha (lower house
of Indian parliament) member from Pune, had on July 22 moved
the application for custody parole to attend the 8th session
of the 15th Lok Sabha.
Earlier this month, Kalmadi had written to Lok Sabha
Speaker Meira Kumar seeking her permission to attend the
session of Parliament scheduled from August 1 to September 8.
The Speaker, however, had said he would be able to attend
Parliament only after the competent court's permission.
In his application, Kalmadi had told the court that he
has been served with summons from Lok Sabha Secretary General
T K Vishwanathan to attend the session beginning August 1 and
being a peoples' representative "he has a larger role to play
in the polity of the nation as an MP." PTI AKI
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