India, April 30 -- The Assam government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Congress leader Pawan Khera used forged documents to claim that Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife held multiple passports. Even as the court reserved its judgment on Khera's anticipatory bail plea, the state said Khera must face custodial interrogation to explain whether he forged the documents or received them from others, and whether any "foreign hand" was involved in an attempt to disrupt the state's assembly polls.

Appearing for Assam, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of justices J K Maheshwari and Atul Chandurkar that Khera claimed at a press conference that Sarma's wife held passports of three countries, displaying their images....