{"id":48183,"date":"2017-05-09T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48183"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:44:12","slug":"ddca-controversy-hc-seeks-jaitley-stand-kejriwal-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/ddca-controversy-hc-seeks-jaitley-stand-kejriwal-plea","title":{"rendered":"DDCA controversy: HC seeks Jaitley stand on Kejriwal plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47813\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47813\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/finance-minister-okays-8-65-interest-epf\/jaitely-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" 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=\"jaitely\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47813 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DDCA controversy: HC seeks Jaitley stand on Kejriwal plea\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/jaitely.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DDCA controversy: HC seeks Jaitley stand on Kejriwal plea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Delhi High Court today sought response of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s plea to expunge remarks made against him by a trial court in a criminal defamation case filed by the BJP leader.<\/p>\n<p>Jaitley had filed the criminal defamation complaint alleging that the accused, including Ashutosh, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chaddha and Deepak Bajpai apart from Kejriwal, had defamed him in a controversy regarding Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) when he headed it for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>A civil defamation suit has also been filed by Jaitley against them in the Delhi High Court in the matter seeking Rs 10 crore as damages.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mukta Gupta today issued notice to Jaitley and sought his stand regarding Kejriwal&#8217;s plea against the trial court&#8217;s remarks made while dismissing his application seeking to be heard on the point of framing of notice in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The high court will take up this matter on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court, while dismissing the application filed by Kejriwal and the five Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, had said the plea was &#8220;bereft of any merit, mala fide and filed solely with a view to stall&#8221; the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court had dismissed their application on January 30, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal has also moved another application claiming that some of the alleged remarks attributed to him and other AAP leaders by Jaitley in his criminal defamation case were not defamatory.<\/p>\n<p>It was contended by Kejriwal&#8217;s lawyers that the remarks attributed to him were taken from news publications and social media extracts.<\/p>\n<p>However, as these news reports or social media extracts had not been filed by Kejriwal&#8217;s lawyer, the court gave them time till May 22 to file the documents in support of their plea.<\/p>\n<p>The second plea would be taken up for hearing by the court on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>In his first plea, Kejriwal had also challenged the trial court&#8217;s January 30 order, in which the remarks were made, but his lawyers decided to give up that prayer saying they would file a separate petition on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today sought response of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s plea to expunge remarks made against him by a trial court in a criminal defamation case filed by the BJP leader. 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