{"id":55231,"date":"2019-01-22T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55231"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:57:27","slug":"court-reserves-order-on-summoning-scribe-as-accused-in-defamation-case-filed-by-m-j-akbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-reserves-order-on-summoning-scribe-as-accused-in-defamation-case-filed-by-m-j-akbar","title":{"rendered":"Court reserves order on summoning scribe as accused in defamation case filed by M J Akbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"155\" data-attachment-id=\"55235\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-reserves-order-on-summoning-scribe-as-accused-in-defamation-case-filed-by-m-j-akbar\/mjakbar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?fit=279%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"279,155\" 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=\"mjakbar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?fit=279%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?fit=279%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55235\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?resize=279%2C155&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?w=279&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/mjakbar.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>A Delhi court Tuesday reserved for January 29 its order on whether to summon journalist Priya Ramani as an accused in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar after she levelled allegations of sexual misconduct against him.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal reserved the order after listening to arguments from Akbar&#8217;s lawyer, who said a prima facie case was made out against Ramani.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar, who resigned as Union minister on October 17 last year, filed a private criminal defamation complaint against Ramani after his name cropped up on social media when he was in Nigeria as the #MeToo campaign raged on in India.<\/p>\n<p>Ramani accused Akbar of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, which was denied by him.<\/p>\n<p>The court had on January 11 recorded the statements of three more witnesses in support of the case filed by Akbar.<\/p>\n<p>The three witnesses &#8212; Tapan Chaki, Manjar Ali and Rachna Grover &#8212; who were associated with Akbar deposed before the court, saying they were extremely &#8220;distressed and dismayed&#8221; as grave damage has been caused to his reputation due to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>It had earlier recorded the statements of Akbar and Joyeeta Basu, the editor of Sunday Guardian, in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar had told the court in his statement that an &#8220;immediate damage&#8221; has been caused to him due to the &#8220;scurrilous&#8221;, concocted and false allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple women have come out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by him while he was working as a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>He had termed the allegations &#8220;false, fabricated and deeply distressing&#8221; and said he was taking appropriate legal action against them.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing her readiness to fight the defamation allegations, Ramani had said, &#8220;Rather than engage with the serious allegations that many women have made against him, he seeks to silence them through intimidation and harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court Tuesday reserved for January 29 its order on whether to summon journalist Priya Ramani as an accused in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar after she levelled allegations of sexual misconduct against him. 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