On Monday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore was acquitted in a 12-year-old Dara Singh, alias Daria encounter case, but it is the ruling BJP which has got a shot in the arm ahead of the assembly polls in December.
The Supreme Court acquitted Rathore, giving him a clean chit in the case.
The immediacy of a media briefing by Rathore's fellow cabinet minister Yunus Khan to brand Rathore as a victim of political conspiracy was not lost on the journalists. Khan attacked the state Congress shortly after the Supreme Court's verdict, calling the judgement a victory of truth.
While delivering its judgement, the apex court revoked the October 26, 2012, order of the Rajasthan High Court against Rathore in this case on Monday. The division bench of justices Adarsh Kumar Goyal and Indu Malhotra gave this order on a Special Leave Petition filed by Rathore.
