{"id":99275,"date":"2016-10-22T00:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2016\/10\/22\/rios-degree-row-court-defers-hearing-to-november-11\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:24:35","slug":"rios-degree-row-court-defers-hearing-to-november-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2016\/10\/22\/rios-degree-row-court-defers-hearing-to-november-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio\u2019s degree row: Court defers hearing to November 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Accompanied by hundreds of people, many waving banners and placards, who turned up in a show of solidarity, former chief minister and present Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio marched to the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class as summoned, to make his statement in the case filed against his election affidavit on his educational qualification 2014 by Dr. Rosemary Dzuvichu on February 11, 2016.<\/span><\/div>\n
The case against was heard in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate First Class (CJMFC) Tucuno Vamuzo after it was shifted from the court of CJMFC Mezivolu T. Therieh on an appeal by Rio\u2019s counsel. The counsel for the complainant appealed for time of two weeks on the plea that they had sought the High Court\u2019s intervention in the transferring of the case.<\/div>\n
Considering their appeal, the lower court deferred the hearing to November 11.<\/div>\n
Speaking to media persons outside the Court, Rio Advocate B.K. Mahajan said the case against Rio politically motivated and a vendetta by his opponents. <\/div>\n
On his part, Rio denied any wrongdoing since Kohima College had apologized for having erroneously issued duplicate BA (Honours in Political Science) certificate instead of BA. Rio maintained that even on his election nominations in 2013 and 2014 he had never mentioned that he passed BA with honours. <\/div>\n
Asked why he had not informed college authorities to correct the mistake after getting the certificate, Rio said \u201cAs the Chief Minister of the State I had been busy and did not see that I had been issued with BA (Honors) certificate.\u201d Admitting that the error in filing affidavit was committed 2014 Lok Sabha election,Rio explained that \u201csince the documents were already there, my people must have seen the papers and recorded as it was found\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cI had never mentioned that I am BA (Honors) but recorded as BA from Kohima College Kohima under North East Hills University in any of the profiles in State Assembly (Who is Who) and even in the Lok Sabha,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
Rio said he appeared before the Court in person Friday, to dispel misgivings and prove his innocence to allegations made against him on the educational qualification issue. When asked if it was a \u201cpolitical war\u201d between him and incumbent chief minister T.R. Zeliang, Rio replied \u201cI have no political war with anybody but if they have it with me that I don\u2019t know\u201d.<\/div>\n
The MP, who arrived at the court with his advocates, was welcomed by hundreds of his supporters holding placards that read: \u201cRio is the only answer, Truth will prevail\u201d.<\/div>\n
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