New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday will take up the BJP leader Nitin Gadkari's defamation case against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The court will hear arguments on the plea to summon Kejriwal as an accused.
Gadkari had filed the defamation case against Kejriwal for naming him in a list of corrupt politicians. In his petition filed through senior advocate Pinky Anand and advocate Ajay Digpaul, Gadkari claimed that Kejriwal had leveled "false, baseless, scandalous and defamatory statements" against him which had lowered his dignity in the eyes of the public.
"Such false, baseless, scandalous, fabricated and defamatory statements have been made with the ulterior motive and wrongful intent to malign and tarnish the image of the complainant and the same constitutes the offence of defamation under section 499 IPC, punishable under section 500 IPC," it said.
Gadkari also alleged that Kejriwal had "deliberately tried to malign" his image though "he is not involved in any wrongful or corrupt act." "The news circulated and published on the basis of statements made by Kejriwal is per se defamatory and scandalous. He has deliberately released/published the aforesaid list of India's most corrupt mentioning the name of the complainant in a grossly irresponsible manner," he said.
(Additional information from PTI)
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