Bareilly: In a case involving the purported misappropriation of public funds, an MP-MLA court has issued an arrest warrant for Louise Khurshid, the wife of former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid.
The special MP-MLA court’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shambhavi issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for two people, including Louise Khurshid, and set February 16 as the hearing date.
On Thursday, Special Public Prosecutor Achintya Dwivedi stated that the Dr. Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust of Louise Khurshid, which is located in the district’s Bhojipura area, organized a program for the distribution of prosthetic limbs and equipment in 2009–2010.
The government got the matter investigated after receiving allegations of discrepancies.
It was found that government funds were misused by using fake seals and signatures in the programme, he said.
He said a case was registered in Bhojipura police station in this regard in 2017.
Louise Khurshid and organisation’s secretary Mohammad Athar Farooqui were named in the FIR. The police had filed the charge sheet against both the accused in the court.
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