Question: Which state’s CM seeks Meenakshi Lekhi’s help to free Vishal Jood from Australian jail on July 2021 ?
(a) Haryana
(b)Maharashtra
(c) Punjab
(d) None of the above
Answer – (a)
Related facts —
- Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar on July wrote a letter to minister of state, ministry of external affairs and ministry of culture Meenakshi Lekhi over Kurukshetra youth Vishal Jood’s release who is lodged in an Australian prison.
Charges to Vishal Jood —
- He is lodged in an Australian prison since April 2021 over charges of being involved in an assault in Sydney.
Khattar’s argument —
- Urging Lekhi’s high priority intervention to secure justice for a ‘Son of Haryana’ in Australia, Chief Minister has written that he has received representations from various quarters including his family who have conveyed to him that Vishal Jood got into a tussle with a group, that was raising anti-Indian slogans and even desecrating the Indian national flag and these groups have subsequently framed him on false charges.
By — Pankaj Pandey.