{"id":37644,"date":"2015-05-02T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37644"},"modified":"2015-05-02T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T10:35:18","slug":"sc-stays-defamation-cases-against-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-stays-defamation-cases-against-kejriwal","title":{"rendered":"SC stays defamation cases against Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today stayed proceedings in trial courts in two criminal defamation cases against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/kejriwal.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" data-attachment-id=\"37563\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/yet-to-decide-whether-to-pursue-defamation-case-kejriwal-to-hc\/kejriwal-4\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/kejriwal.png?fit=255%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"255,198\" 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=\"kejriwal\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;kejriwal&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;kejriwal&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/kejriwal.png?fit=255%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37563\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/kejriwal.png?resize=255%2C198&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kejriwal\" \/><\/a>decided to hear them along with the pleas in which the constitutional validity of the penal provisions have been challenged.The apex court did not accept the plea that prosecution should continue in the trial court in the defamation cases filed by former union minister Kapil Sibal\u2019s son and Sheila Dikshit\u2019s ex-political secretary against Kejriwal and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we have directed stay in other cases, it will follow in other cases also,\u201d a bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and P C Pant said while issuing notice to the Centre and other respondents in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a pre-Constitution law. It has to be examined whether it offends the provisions of the Constitution,\u201d the bench said referring to sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code which deals with criminal defamation and is scheduled to be listed for hearing on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>Sibal\u2019s son Amit Sibal, also a senior advocate, had filed the defamation case against Kejriwal and the then Aam Admi Party (AAP) leaders Prashant Bhushan and Shazia Ilmi for their comment that he took advantage of his father\u2019s position while Dikshit\u2019s ex-political secretary Pawan Khera sued the Chief Minister for his alleged remarks against his predecessor during protests over power tariff hike in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Their counsel wanted the apex court to restrain media from publishing the defamatory contents but there was no order in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, the court had stayed prosecution of Kejriwal in defamation cases filed by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and advocate Surender Kumar Sharma and ordered the Centre to respond to Kejriwal\u2019s plea challenging the criminalisation of defamation.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari had alleged that he was defamed by the AAP leader who had included his name in the party\u2019s list of \u201cIndia\u2019s most corrupt\u201d. The proceedings are pending and the Union Minister has recently partly recorded his statement in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today stayed proceedings in trial courts in two criminal defamation cases against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and decided to hear them along with the pleas in which the constitutional validity of the penal provisions have been challenged.The apex court did not accept the plea that prosecution should continue in the trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37563,"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":[90,1],"tags":[32495,32497,31987,2983,32496],"class_list":["post-37644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bar-bench-firm-news","category-top-law-news","tag-defamation-cases","tag-defamation-cases-against-kejriwal","tag-featured","tag-kejriwal","tag-sc-stays-defamation-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC stays defamation cases against Kejriwal - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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