Mohammed Shami's Wife Goes To Supreme Court, Seeks Arrest Warrant Against Him

Mohammed Shami: A sessions court in West Bengal had issued a stay on the arrest warrant against the cricketer

Shami's wife has alleged that the cricketer has been involved in illicit extra-marital sexual affairs especially during his tours with the BCCI.

Source : AFP

The wife of Team India and Gujarat Titans pacer Mohammed Shami moved to Supreme Court on Tuesday against a Calcutta High Court order which had earlier dismissed her plea which seeked to lift the stay on the arrest warrant against the cricketer issued by a local court.

The order which Shami's wife has challenged dates back to March 28, 2023. Notably, a sessions court in West Bengal had issued a stay on the arrest warrant against the cricketer, who is currently plying his trade in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The wife of the cricketer moved to the Supreme Court through her counsels Deepak Prakash, Advocate-on-Record, Nachiketa Vajpayee and Divyangna Malik Vajpayee, Advocate.

She has reportedly alleged that Shami has been involved in extra-marital sexual affairs especially during his tours with the BCCI. She has even said that the same practice is continued even till the present day. As per the petition, an arrest warramt was issued against the cricketer by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore, on August 29, 2019. However, Shami challenged this in September that year and got it stayed as well as the entire proceedings of the criminal trial.

"Criminal Trial in the present case has been stayed for the past 4 years, without any just circumstances, in a case wherein Respondent No. 3 did not even pray for the stay of criminal trial and his sole grievance was only against the issuance of Arrest warrants against them, thus, the Sessions Court acted in an erroneous and biased manner, by virtue of which the rights and interests of the Petitioner have been severally jeopardized and prejudiced," the petitioner said as quoted in a report by news agency ANI.

"That such stay has been granted in favour of the accused person is bad in law and has caused a grave prejudice who has been a victim of the illegal act of brutal assault and violence against the petitioner herein by this high profile accused in favour of whom the District and Sessions court, Alipore, as well as High Court at Calcutta, vide impugned order has granted a one-sided undue advantage in favour of the accused which is not only bad in law but is also against the principle of Natural Justice," the petitioner added.