The Patiala House court on Thursday asked the Delhi State Election Commission to file a certificate to support the affidavit filed by it of Union minister Smriti Irani for contesting the Lok Sabha election from Chandni Chowk constituency in 2004. Metropolitan magistrate Harvinder Singh, who was expected to pronounce the order on whether to summon the politician as accused in the case, has now given the commission a deadline of October 15 to produce the certificate. In June last year, a case was filed by freelance writer Ahmer Khan and student activist Nalin Narottam accusing Irani of providing contradictory affidavits about her educational qualifications in different elections. They said that Irani, in her affidavit for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, stated her educational qualification as BA from Delhi University (School of Correspondence). However, while filing the affidavit in her Rajya Sabha nomination papers from Gujarat in 2011, she said that her highest educational qualification was B.Com, Part 1 (correspondence course) from Delhi University.

Source: Hindustan Times October 06, 2016 13:18 UTC