Days after a plea was filed seeking a sedition case against cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan army chief, a local court today asked the complainant to appear before it next week with relevant documents and evidences.

Taking cognizance of the petition filed by advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha, the Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Prasad said he will personally look into the matter and fixed August 29 as the next date of hearing. In his petition filed on August 20, Ojha had urged the court to issue directions for registering a case against Sidhu under the IPC sections relating to sedition, making imputations and assertions prejudicial to national integration and insult with intent to provoke breach of peace.