{"id":19021,"date":"2012-04-04T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=19021"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T05:15:19","slug":"court-seeks-proof-on-plea-against-digvijay-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-seeks-proof-on-plea-against-digvijay-singh","title":{"rendered":"Court seeks proof on plea against Digvijay Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/court-seeks-proof-on-plea-against-digvijay-singh\/dd-6\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19022\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19022\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-seeks-proof-on-plea-against-digvijay-singh\/dd-6\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?fit=267%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"267,189\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?fit=150%2C106&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?fit=267%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19022\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?resize=267%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?w=267&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/dd.jpg?resize=150%2C106&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>A man, who allegedly hurled a shoe at a Congress leader at a press conference here last year, was Tuesday told by a Delhi court to prove his allegation that he was beaten up by party leader Digvijay Singh after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja listed the matter for April 21 and asked Sushil Kumar Sharma to give more proof to back his plea for registering a case against Digvijay Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that Sharma&#8217;s application did not have sufficient evidence to prove his allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma alleged that he was beaten up by Digvijay Singh and others at the venue of the press conference June 6, 2011 at a Congress office here. 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