Defamation suit: Delhi HC asks Kejriwal and Azad to file written replies

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Defamation suit: Delhi HC asks Kejriwal and Azad to file written replies
Defamation suit: Delhi HC asks Kejriwal and Azad to file written replies

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad to file their written statements in a civil defamation suit of Rs 5 crore filed by DDCA for their alleged remarks against the cricket body regarding its functioning and finances. Joint Registrar Anil Kumar Sisodia directed Kejriwal and Azad to submit their statements within 30 days after they failed to file it on Wednesday on the ground that the two had not received the fully copy of the suit.

“The counsel for the defendent number 1 and 2 (Kejriwal and Azad) appeared on the summons issue to them and submitted that they have not received the full documents. Plaintiff (DDCA) is directed to supply the copy to the defendants within a week from today. “The defendants shall file their written statements (to the suit filed by DDCA) within 30 days after receiving the full documents.

The DDCA will file replication (the response of a plaintiff to the defendant’s plea in an action at law, or to the defendant’s answer in a suit) within four weeks thereafter. The parties shall file the original documents from ten weeks from today after exchanging the same,” the court said. It also directed that the affidavit of admission/ denial of documents shall be filed within 12 weeks from today and put up the matter for completion of pleadings and admission/denial of documents on July 7.

The court’s direction came during hearing of Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA)’s civil defamation suit in which Kejriwal and Azad were issued notice on January 15 for filing their written statements.

DDCA, through its counsel advocate Sangram Patnaik, had said that Kejriwal “with prior motive, indulged in certain false, shocking, scandalous, defamatory, baseless, slanderous, malicious, disgraceful and outrageous statements which are defamatory against them”. The counsel had said that Azad also indulged in making such statements, “which were made solely with an agenda to defame and cause harm to the plaintiff(DDCA), for self-serving and motivated reasons”.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Kejriwal Ji, any clue in this regard? Please extend your fight across India and through Judiciary sector…. India needs you for clean India…?

  2. Is Judiciary unbiased? or Is Judiciary on sale? This doubt I am getting because I am witnessing Justice being bought by few personalities like Mrs.Sudha Kulkarni, a Marathi woman who has a great son, indeed…. I hear that we should not talk about corruption in Judiciary and corruption by Hon’ble Judges? Why? Has our Great Ambedkar provided a provision to encourage corruption in Judiciary through Hon’ble Judges? I don’t think so…. Though our Ambedkar is a Marathi person, he has never shown biased ness on any lines of division and always thought about our welfare bcoz of which we have our sacred Constitution drafted/written by him. In this situation, who is that who gives freedom to Judiciary to implement corruption through elevated Judicial workforce at the cost of GOVERNMENT SALARIES from INDIAN GOVERNMENT TREASURY?

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