BREAKING| Manish Sisodia's Criminal Defamation Case : Supreme Court Dismisses BJP Leader Manoj Tiwari's Plea Against Summons, Allows Vijender Gupta's Appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its judgement on the two petitions moved by BJP leaders Manoj Tiwari and Vijender Gupta against Delhi High Court's refusal to quash the summoning order issued by a Magistrate in the defamation case filed by Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.A bench comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer and V Ramabsubramanian, which reserved the judgment on...
The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its judgement on the two petitions moved by BJP leaders Manoj Tiwari and Vijender Gupta against Delhi High Court's refusal to quash the summoning order issued by a Magistrate in the defamation case filed by Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
A bench comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer and V Ramabsubramanian, which reserved the judgment on September 22, said that it has dismissed Manoj Tiwari's appeal, however has allowed Vijender Gupta's appeal. During the hearing, the bench had observed that Gupta's tweets did not appear defamatory.
"We don't think that this man (Sisodia) is a corrupt man by reading the tweets (by Gupta)", the bench had orally commented during the hearing.
The defamation case was filed by Sisodia in 2019 against BJP leaders — Members of Parliament Manoj Tiwari, Hans Raj Hans and Pravesh Verma, former MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Rohini constituency; MLA Vijender Gupta, and Spokesperson Harish Khurana — for allegedly making defamatory statements about his involvement in corruption of nearly Rs 2,000 crore in the building of classrooms in Delhi's government schools.
(Story to be updated after judgment is uploaded)