"I was never a member of any banned outfit and this has been proved both in the Delhi and Patiala courts,” said Kobad Ghandy in Patiala on October 18, 2016 after the court of Additional Sessions and District Judge Mohammad Gulzar acquitted him of all charges in a six-year-old case. The alleged leader of the banned CPI (Maoist) party had been booked by the police in 2010 for delivering two "anti-national” speeches at Punjabi University, reported the Tribune on October 19.
Kobad Ghandy (center) in Patiala Photo: Bharat Bhushan/Hindustan Times
Defence counsel Brijinder Singh Sodhi, arguing for Ghandy, drew attention to......