The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi put stays on the non-bailable warrant issued against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav in a defamation case filed by the advocate Surender Sharma. The next date of the hearing is April 29.
Delhi court has issued a non-bailable warrant against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav alleging them in a criminal defamation case. The High court issued the warrant as to the alleged failure to appear in the court on the day of hearing of a plea filed by advocate Surendra Kumar Sharma.
Advocate Surendra Kumar Sharma filed a complaint in the top court against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for defaming him after the ticket allocation to another candidate in Delhi assembly seats.
He said that the volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party in 2013 had promised him the allocation of the party ticket for the Delhi assembly elections. He claimed that he submitted the application to the Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav after they said that the party has agreed to grant him the ticket, however, later the party withdrew its ticket from him.
He alleged that various newspapers and articles quoted by the AAP leaders saying “defamatory, unlawful, and derogatory words” against him in October 2013. The advocate said that the articles in the newspaper degraded his reputation in the bar and in the society.
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