{"id":52170,"date":"2018-04-03T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T11:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=52170"},"modified":"2018-04-03T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T11:32:49","slug":"hc-closes-defamation-suit-kejriwal-apologised-arun-jaitley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-closes-defamation-suit-kejriwal-apologised-arun-jaitley","title":{"rendered":"HC closes defamation suit on kejriwal after he apologised to Arun Jaitley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-attachment-id=\"52171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-closes-defamation-suit-kejriwal-apologised-arun-jaitley\/kejri-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?fit=960%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,540\" 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=\"kejri\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52171\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/kejri.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court today closed the Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal apologised to him.<\/p>\n<p>Jaitley had filed this second defamation suit after Kejriwal&#8217;s former lawyer Ram Jethmalani allegedly &#8220;abused&#8221; him in open court during the proceedings of the original defamation suit against the Aam Aadmi Party chief and five other party functionaries.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Manmohan allowed the settlement application jointly filed by Jaitley and Kejriwal and disposed of the suit following the AAP chief&#8217;s apology, which was accepted by the BJP leader.<\/p>\n<p>The court accepted the written undertaking and statement of both the leaders and decreed the suit in accordance with the settlement application.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, advocate Anupam Srivastava, appearing for Kejriwal, told the court that the matter was settled and Jaitley accepted the apology tendered by the AAP leader.<\/p>\n<p>Senior advocate Rajiv Nayyar and advocate Manik Dogra, representing Jaitley, also said the dispute was settled by the parties.<\/p>\n<p>The court noted that the settlement application was signed by the leaders as well as their advocates who undertook that their clients would abide by the undertaking given.<\/p>\n<p>Another bench of the high court is scheduled to hear during the day Jaitley and Kejriwal&#8217;s settlement application in the first defamation suit.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal had on March 19 opposed in the High Court the second Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed against him by Jaitley over the use of an objectionable word by Jethmalani. He claimed that he had never instructed his then counsel to use any scandalous words against the minister during recording of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>During the cross-examination of the minister on May 17 last year before Joint Registrar, Jethmalani had used a term Jaitley found objectionable.<\/p>\n<p>AAP leaders had accused the BJP leader of corruption as the president of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), a post he had held from 2000 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Jaitley, who had denied all allegations levelled by the AAP leaders in December 2015, had filed a civil defamation suit seeking Rs 10 crore damages from Kejriwal and five other leaders of his party, claiming they had made &#8220;false and defamatory&#8221; statements in the case involving DDCA, thereby harming his reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today closed the Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal apologised to him. 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