{"id":204955,"date":"2026-07-13T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/204955\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:28:09","slug":"hc-denies-iraq-travel-to-ex-mla-bhopal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/204955\/","title":{"rendered":"HC denies Iraq travel to ex-MLA | Bhopal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"HC denies Iraq travel to ex-MLA\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Bhopal\/Jabalpur: The MP High Court refused permission to former MLA Sunilam to travel to Iraq after his counsel declined the court\u2019s offer to argue and finally dispose of the 14-year-old police firing case in which he was convicted.The case relates to the 2006 farmers\u2019 agitation in Multai, Betul district, during the Digvijaya Singh regime, when police firing left 19 people dead. Sunilam, who later won from Multai as an independent MLA, was made an accused and convicted by the trial court. He challenged the order in the High Court and got bail.The appeal has been pending since 2012.When Sunilam\u2019s counsel moved an application seeking permission to get a visa for Iraq, a division bench of Justice Vivek Agarwal and Justice A K Singh said there was no urgent personal cause to allow foreign travel. The bench instead offered to hear the appeal finally and asked counsel to suggest a convenient date. The counsel refused, saying he had no instructions from his client.Peeved, the judges said it was \u201csurprising and ridiculous\u201d that the counsel was not ready to argue. \u201cIt is evident that the counsel himself is guilty of prolonging the litigation whereas usually an impression is conveyed that courts are not functioning properly,\u201d the bench observed.\u201cHaving regard to the conduct of counsel and reasons cited, the court doesn\u2019t find any ground to entertain the application,\u201d the judges said while dismissing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bhopal\/Jabalpur: The MP High Court refused permission to former MLA Sunilam to travel to Iraq after his counsel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[60033,60028,60032,60031,27472,60019,60016,60037,60029,60041,60034,60013,60024,60022,60023,94,60020,60017,60036,60035,60038,60015,60014,60018,60025,60027,60026,60040,60039,60042,60030,60021],"class_list":["post-204955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-14-year-old-case","tag-19-killed","tag-2012-appeal","tag-appeal-pending","tag-bail","tag-betul-district","tag-bhopal","tag-counsel-conduct","tag-digvijaya-singh-regime","tag-dismissal-of-application","tag-division-bench","tag-dr-sunilam","tag-farmers-agitation","tag-former-mla","tag-independent-mla","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-travel-permission","tag-jabalpur","tag-justice-a-k-singh","tag-justice-vivek-agarwal","tag-lawyer-conduct","tag-madhya-pradesh-high-court","tag-mp-high-court","tag-multai","tag-multai-farmers-agitation","tag-multai-police-firing","tag-police-firing","tag-prolonging-litigation","tag-refusal-to-argue-appeal","tag-travel-abroad-denied","tag-trial-court-conviction","tag-visa-application"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}