{"id":35728,"date":"2014-11-03T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35728"},"modified":"2014-11-03T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:14:08","slug":"court-issues-bailable-warrant-digvijay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-bailable-warrant-digvijay","title":{"rendered":"Court issues bailable warrant against Digvijay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-bailable-warrant-digvijay\/congress-leader-digvijay-singh-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?fit=214%2C236&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"214,236\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Congress leader Digvijay Singh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?fit=136%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?fit=214%2C236&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35729\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?resize=214%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Congress leader Digvijay Singh\" width=\"214\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?w=214&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Congress-leader-Digvijay-Singh.jpg?resize=136%2C150&amp;ssl=1 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>A Delhi court today issued a\u00a0bailable warrant against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for\u00a0his failure to appear before it in connection with a criminal\u00a0defamation case filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari\u00a0only to cancel it after he turned up.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha cancelled the\u00a0bailable warrant against Singh after he appeared before the\u00a0court around 3 pm and requested it to withdraw the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>He gave an undertaking to the court that he would\u00a0personally appear before it on the next date of hearing on\u00a0November 10.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, around 12 noon, when the matter came\u00a0up for hearing, Singh\u2019s counsel moved a plea seeking exemption\u00a0from personal appearance for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, dismissed his plea and issued bailable\u00a0warrant against Singh after the application was opposed by\u00a0advocates Ajay Digpaul and Balendu Shekhar, who appeared for\u00a0Gadkari.<\/p>\n<p>It also directed Union Minister of Road Transport\u00a0and Highways Gadkari, who had filed the plea in 2012, to be\u00a0present in the court on November 10, warning that his plea\u00a0would be dismissed if he fails to appear on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIssue bailable warrant in the sum of Rs 10,000 with one\u00a0surety of the like amount against the accused (Singh) for\u00a0November 10, 2014.\u201d the magistrate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant (Gadkari) is directed to appear in person\u00a0positively on the NDOH (next date of hearing), failing which\u00a0complaint shall be dismissed,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n<p>The defamation case was filed by Gadkari against Singh,\u00a0who had alleged that the former BJP chief had business links\u00a0with the then MP Ajay Sancheti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court today issued a\u00a0bailable warrant against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for\u00a0his failure to appear before it in connection with a criminal\u00a0defamation case filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari\u00a0only to cancel it after he turned up. Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha cancelled the\u00a0bailable warrant against Singh after he appeared before the\u00a0court around 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28535,7454,30289],"class_list":["post-35728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-bjp-leader-nitin-gadkari","tag-congress-leader-digvijay-singh","tag-court-issues-bailable-warrant-against-digvijay"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court issues bailable warrant against Digvijay - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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