The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday expressed its unhappiness over Congress leader Ahmed Patel for his failure to appear before the court for his deposition in the election petition filed by BJP's Balvantsinh Rajput, challenging his Rajya Sabha poll victory.
The Congress leader was supposed to appear before the court on Wednesday for his 'examination-in-chief'. Instead, he moved an application through his lawyer PS Champaneri demanding that he be examined in the case at a later stage after other witnesses in the case are examined, citing health reasons. The single-judge bench of Justice Bela Trivedi, however, rejected the same citing several lacunas in the application, as was pointed out by Rajput's senior counsel Nirupam Nanavati.