Assam police team landed at Pawan Khera’s home in Delhi but failed to find him; Himanta Sarma said he had fled to Hyderabad

GUWAHATI: An Assam police team on Tuesday raided the residence of Neta Pawan Khera at Parliament House in New Delhi in connection with a case filed by the CM Himanta Biswa SarmaHis wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, escalated the political conflict over her alleged possession of multiple passports and foreign assets.Officials said Hera was not found at his Nizamuddin residence during a search conducted with the assistance of Delhi Police. “We will trace him wherever he is,” DCP Debajit Nath said.Police seized electronic devices during the operation. Ness added: “Some incriminating material has been discovered but the details of which cannot be disclosed at this stage.” An FIR was received in Guwahati around midnight on Sunday after Kaira and Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi alleged that Riniki held passports from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Antigua and Barbuda, owned properties in Dubai and transferred assets through US shell companies. The case includes charges of forgery under BNS, among other charges.CM Sarma denied the allegations, saying the documents shown in Congress were “artificial intelligence-generated fake documents”. “Kaira had made a request to the Assam police to arrest him, but I came to know through the media that the police went to his residence in Delhi but he escaped to Hyderabad. The law will take its own course,” Sarma said. Opposition voices have intensified their calls for a review. Congress ally Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi has called for a CBI probe into the allegations that the Sarma family holds assets abroad. Gogoi accused the chief minister of deflecting the issue. “Kaira’s question should be answered directly. The chief minister did not have the courage and used police instead,” he added.Kaira must face consequences: BJP; Congress calls it witch huntThe BJP and Congress are at loggerheads over the Assam police’s action against Kaira on Tuesday, with the ruling party backing the move and the latter calling it a “witch hunt”.The BJP said the CM should be prepared to face the consequences if anyone makes false accusations and questions the citizenship of his wife. The statement said he should have faced police instead of running away after such a serious allegation.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said the deployment of “full police force” to arrest Kaira for raising basic questions in public interest was proof that the chief minister was “disturbed, desperate and disturbed”. He said Salma behaved like a bully and was uncomfortable with issues raised in the public interest.Regarding this action, he said: “This is not due process, but a political persecution, a bully using state machinery to silence and silence the voices of the opposition and expose his many black deeds.