Court junks defamation complaint by Sandeep Dikshit against AAP’s Atishi, Sanjay Singh | Delhi News
A Delhi Court on Thursday dismissed a criminal defamation complaint filed by Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit against Delhi’s former Chief Minister Atishi and AAP MP Sanjay Singh. “… this Court… finds that the necessary ingredients of criminal defamation are prima facie not made out. The press conference and averments made by the respondents (Atishi and Singh) is nothing more than political discourse amongst rival and competing parties,” said Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Paras Dalal of Rouse Avenue Court while declining to take cognizance of the complaint. In his complaint, Dikshit alleged that Atishi had shared live proceedings of a press conference on her X handle with the caption ‘BJP is helping Congress in the Delhi election’. It was Dikshit’s allegation that Atishi had made false, malicious and defamatory statements aimed at tarnishing his image at a critical time preceding the elections. Story continues below this ad “In a triangular contest, each candidate has to fight his own battle, however, given how elections are fought in India, it is not uncommon for each candidate to …
