New Delhi, April 26 -- Congress leader Pawan Khera on Sunday moved the Supreme Court against an April 24 order of the Gauhati High Court rejecting his anticipatory bail plea in a defamation and forgery case registered against him by the Assam Police.

An FIR was lodged against Khera by Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the wife of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Kumar Sarma, following his recent claims at a press conference that she holds multiple foreign passports and undisclosed assets abroad.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had also rejected Khera's plea seeking to extend the transit anticipatory bail, granted to him earlier by the Telangana High Court, on the ground of enabling him to approach any jurisdictional court in Assam to seek relief.

However, t...