Ahmedabad: A city sessions court on Saturday rejected a revision application filed by former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal, seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s education and degree-related documents.The order came in connection with Gujarat University’s criminal defamation complaint against Kejriwal and AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who are facing trial before a metropolitan court. Gujarat University filed the defamation case over their alleged remarks about the university and its degrees, a day after Gujarat High Court quashed the chief information commissioner’s order directing the university to furnish Modi’s degree under RTI provisions.Kejriwal had moved an application before a trial court under Section 91 of CrPC (summons to produce documents or other things) seeking directions to GU to produce documents related to Modi’s education and degree issued by the university. The JMFC court rejected the application on March 10.Challenging that order, Kejriwal filed a revision application. His counsel argued that the documents were necessary for his defence and that the university should be directed to supply records related to Modi’s education.Public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt and GU advocate Amit Nair opposed the plea, arguing it was not maintainable. They cited Supreme Court judgements to contend that an order on production of documents under Section 91 is interlocutory and cannot be challenged.After hearing both sides, Sessions Judge P B Patel dismissed Kejriwal’s revision. Citing a Supreme Court order, the sessions court said, “The judgement of the Supreme Court in the case of Sethuraman (supra) has held that the order passed under Section 91 of the CrPC is of an interlocutory nature, in which case, under Section 397(2), revision was clearly not maintainable.”
