Court issues warrant against Amar Singh

A city court in Delhi issued a bailable warrant against Samajwadi Party Chief Secretary, Amar Singh, on Thursday for appearing late before the court in connection of a cheating case filed by him two years ago.

Amar had to get record his statement before the court as a complainant in the filed case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kaweri Baweja, issued a bailable warrant for Rs 10,000 against Singh for not appearing before the court after repeatedly recalling.

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But 10 minutes later, Amar appeared before the court and urged to cancel the warrant, which was accepted by the Magistrate with warning to be present before the court on time in the next hearing date without any need of serving any summon.

‘No more summon will be issued for him and you will have to remain present on the next date for testifying in the case as the complainant’, Magistrate said.

After appearing before the court, Amar apologised for being late, while his counsel pledged the court for recording his statement in the case, but till then, the accused Barun Kumar Verma had left the court.

The judge then fixed the next hearing date on July 13, 2009.

Earlier on Feb 20 in the same case, the court had slapped a fine of Rs. 5,000 on Singh for not deposing himself before the court and trying to ask for adjournment through his counsel.

On the other hand, Anoop Kumar Sharma, the counsel for the accused had appealed to the court to close the case as Singh had failed to depose despite being given several opportunities.

The court on Wednesday had given the last warning to the Samajwadi secretary to appear before the court and get record his statement.

Two years before on June 04, 2007 Amar had filed a complaint against a law officer Barun Kumar Verma in connection with hearing of a case in the Supreme Court relating to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, alleging that Barun had tried to extort Rs.50 million from him saying that he could fix the judge, who would hear the case against Yadav in the disproportionate assets case.