The Delhi High Court has directed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor to respond to a defamation petition filed by BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Justice Ravinder Dudeja said the "matter required consideration" while issuing notice to Tharoor on a revision petition against the magisterial court's order dismissing Chandrasekhar's criminal defamation case on February 4, PTI reported.
What did the bench say?
The court said to issue a notice to the respondent. Let the trial court record in digital form with bookmarking be requisitioned.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar was a Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
From 2021 to 2024, he served as Minister of State for Electronics and IT and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
According to Chandrasekhar, Tharoor said that "with the intent to lower his reputation and to impact the result of the last general elections while knowing fully well that the statements were false"
Chandrasekhar's lawyer said the trial court ignored the evidence and decided that no case of defamation was made out.
On February 4, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal refused to summon Tharoor, saying the complaint 바카라did not make out any element of defamation바카라. The Delhi High Court will hear the case again on September 16.
Shashi Tharoor is an MP from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He joined the Indian National Congress in 2009 after working with the United Nations for nearly three decades. Later, he was also appointed the Minister of External Affairs in the UPA government. He also served as the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
