Silchar, May 13 -- Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera on Wednesday appeared before the Guwahati Crime Branch for questioning in connection with a forgery and defamation case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, over allegations regarding foreign assets and passports.

Riniki filed the case in Guwahati on April 5 after Khera alleged that she possessed multiple passports and had undisclosed foreign assets. He also shared some foreign-linked documents, which Sharma later claimed were forged.

Both Riniki and CM Sarma rejected the allegations as baseless and politically motivated, and Riniki subsequently lodged a formal complaint with Assam Police in Guwahati.

Based on the complaint, the Guwahati C...