{"id":57819,"date":"2019-10-17T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T08:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=57819"},"modified":"2019-10-17T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T08:46:24","slug":"mahua-moitras-defamation-case-delhi-hc-quashes-sessions-courts-stay-of-proceedings-against-sudhir-chaudhary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/mahua-moitras-defamation-case-delhi-hc-quashes-sessions-courts-stay-of-proceedings-against-sudhir-chaudhary","title":{"rendered":"Mahua Moitra&#8217;s Defamation Case &#8211; Delhi HC Quashes Sessions Court&#8217;s Stay Of Proceedings Against Sudhir Chaudhary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57826\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/mahua-moitras-defamation-case-delhi-hc-quashes-sessions-courts-stay-of-proceedings-against-sudhir-chaudhary\/mahua-moitras-defamation-case\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?fit=318%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"318,159\" 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=\"Mahua Moitra&amp;#8217;s Defamation Case\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?fit=318%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57826\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?resize=318%2C159&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?resize=150%2C75&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Mahua-Moitras-Defamation-Case.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday challenged in the Delhi High Court a sessions court order staying proceedings in a\u00a0defamation complaint filed by her\u00a0against Zee News and its editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary, PTI reported. Moitra had filed the defamation case after Chaudhary accused her of plagiarism in her June 25 speech in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Moitra, in her plea on Thursday, said that the sessions court should not have intervened in the defamation proceedings when they were at the pre-summoning stage.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhary\u2019s lawyer opposed Moitra\u2019s plea, alleging that it was not maintainable. He said Chaudhary had moved a plea seeking perjury action against the MP for allegedly concealing relevant facts in her defamation complaint. That is why the sessions court stayed the defamation proceedings, the lawyer argued.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Moitra\u2019s lawyers said that the sessions court should not have stayed proceedings against a \u201cproposed accused\u201d. They said Chaudhary had first filed his plea at the magistrate\u2019s court where the defamation case was being heard. But the magistrate\u2019s court adjourned the hearings and the plea to another date, following which Chaudhary appealed in the sessions court.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court asked Chaudhary\u2019s lawyer to submit his reply to Moitra\u2019s plea by October 14, and said it will deliver the verdict on October 18.<\/p>\n<p>In her Lok Sabha speech on June 25, which went viral on social media, Moitra had listed \u201cseven signs of fascism\u201d. It was a scathing critique of the Narendra Modi government. A few days later, some of her detractors claimed that she had lifted parts of her speech from a Washington Monthly article from January 2017, written by journalist Martin Longman. The piece, titled \u201cThe 12 early warning signs of fascism\u201d, was written in the context of American politics and the election of Donald Trump as president. Longman had written that the signs were listed in the US Holocaust Museum, an attribution Moitra also made in her speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday challenged in the Delhi High Court a sessions court order staying proceedings in a\u00a0defamation complaint filed by her\u00a0against Zee News and its editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary, PTI reported. Moitra had filed the defamation case after Chaudhary accused her of plagiarism in her June 25 speech in Parliament. 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