Ahmedabad:

The Gujarat Excessive Court docket on Friday dismissed pleas by Aam Aadmi Get together leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh to quash the summons issued in opposition to them in a felony defamation case over their feedback on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instructional qualification.

By their pleas, Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Singh had challenged the summons by a trial court docket within the case filed by Gujarat College and the next order of the periods court docket dismissing their revision functions in opposition to the summons.

Rejecting their functions, Justice Hasmukh Suthar directed the 2 AAP leaders to make their submissions earlier than the trial court docket.

Looking for the quashing of the summons, the 2 leaders had mentioned that Gujarat College (GU) can’t file a defamation case earlier than a Justice of the Peace court docket and slightly ought to transfer the periods court docket.

The metropolitan court docket had summoned Mr Kejriwal and Mr Singh on April 15 final 12 months within the defamation case filed by GU over their “sarcastic” and “derogatory” statements in reference to PM Modi’s diploma.

The 2 leaders then filed a revision software within the periods court docket difficult the summons.

Nevertheless, the periods court docket upheld the summons, after which they approached the Gujarat HC, which rejected their plea for an interim keep.

The 2 leaders additionally approached the Supreme Court docket, which too refused to entertain their pleas.

The HC later directed the periods court docket to conclude the listening to inside ten days after assigning the matter to a brand new bench.

GU registrar Piyush Patel had filed a defamation case in opposition to Mr Kejriwal and Mr Singh after the HC in March final 12 months put aside the Central Info Fee (CIC) order regarding PM Modi’s instructional qualification.

Whereas the court docket imposed a price of Rs 25,000 upon Mr Kejriwal, it additionally refused to grant a keep on the order.

Mr Kejriwal and Mr Singh made “defamatory” statements in press conferences and on social media concentrating on the college over Modi’s diploma, GU had mentioned in its criticism.

Their feedback, which have been made deliberately, concentrating on the GU have been defamatory and damage the status of the college, as per the complainant.

In April 2016, the then CIC M Sridhar Acharyulu had directed the Delhi College and GU to offer data to Mr Kejriwal on Modi’s levels. Three months later, the Gujarat HC stayed the CIC order after GU approached it in opposition to that order. 

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