By IANS,
New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday gave the go-ahead to the Delhi government to continue prosecution of three cases against hotelier S.P. Gupta, a former client of Home Minister P. Chidambaram who earlier practised as a lawyer.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Yaduvanshi allowed withdrawing the earlier plea of the Delhi government seeking the quashing of three first information reports lodged against Gupta.
The court said: “The court is of the considered view that nothing precludes the prosecution from withdrawing its earlier plea for withdrawal of prosecution.”
The court also rejected the plea of Gupta that complainant VLS Finance had no right to be heard and fixed the matter for hearing March 7.
The government Dec 15 moved a plea seeking withdrawal of its earlier application in which it had favoured withdrawal of FIRs saying no case was made out.
Chidambaram faced opposition parties’ criticism for allegedly advising his ministry to quash FIRs against Gupta, his former client and a Delhi-based hotelier.