SC Dismisses BJP Leader Manoj Tiwari’s Plea Against Summons Issued in Manish Sisodia’s Defamation Case
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 17th Oct. The Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by BJP leader Manoj Tiwari challenging a Delhi High Court order refusing to quash summons issued by a trial court here against him in a criminal defamation case.
However, a bench comprised of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and V Ramasubramaniam granted BJP leader Vijender Gupta’s petition challenging the high court order.
“We have dismissed the appeal by Manoj Tiwari and allowed the appeal by Vijender Gupta on grounds that the history of the law commission report was not properly traced,” the bench said.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia filed a private defamation complaint against BJP leaders for allegedly leveling corruption charges against him.
The BJP leaders have challenged a trial court’s November 28, 2019 order summoning them and others as defendants in Sisodia’s criminal defamation case.
Sisodia had filed a complaint against BJP leaders, including Members of Parliament Tiwari, Hans Raj Hans, and Pravesh Verma, MLAs Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Gupta, and BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana, for allegedly falsely accusing him of corruption in relation to Delhi government school classrooms.
Sisodia stated that all allegations made by BJP leaders, collectively and individually, were false, defamatory, and derogatory, with the intent to harm and damage his reputation and goodwill.
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