The Supreme Court docket on Monday dismissed a plea filed by AAP chief Sanjay Singh difficult an order of the Gujarat Excessive Court docket which refused to quash summons issued towards him in a defamation case for his alleged feedback on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instructional qualification.
The bench stated the excessive courtroom had already noticed in its order that each one contentions accessible to the events have been stored open and the trial choose wouldn’t be influenced by any observations made within the order.
“We’re not inclined to entertain the current petition,” a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta stated.
The excessive courtroom had on February 16 dismissed the pleas by Singh and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal looking for quashing of the summons issued towards them within the defamation case.
Kejriwal and Singh had challenged within the excessive courtroom the summons issued by a trial courtroom within the case filed by the Gujarat College and the next order of the periods courtroom dismissing their revision functions towards the summons.
A Gujarat metropolitan courtroom had earlier summoned Kejriwal and Singh within the defamation case over their alleged “sarcastic” and “derogatory” statements in reference to Modi’s instructional levels.
Gujarat College Registrar Piyush Patel had filed the defamation case towards them over their alleged feedback after the Gujarat Excessive Court docket put aside an order of the chief info commissioner for offering details about Modi’s levels below the Proper to Data (RTI) Act.
In response to the grievance filed by Patel, the 2 leaders made “defamatory” statements at press conferences and on microblogging platform X, concentrating on the college over Modi’s levels.
Their feedback concentrating on the Gujarat College have been defamatory and damage the status of the establishment, which has established its title among the many public, the complainant alleged.
“Their statements have been sarcastic and deliberately made to harm the status of the college,” Patel stated in his grievance.
On March 31 final 12 months, the excessive courtroom quashed a 2016 order of the Central Data Fee (CIC), which directed the Gujarat College to offer info on Modi’s levels to Kejriwal, observing that the AAP chief’s RTI plea seemed to be “politically vexatious and motivated”, as a substitute of being based mostly on “sound public curiosity concerns”.
