{"id":346641,"date":"2023-11-20T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=346641"},"modified":"2023-11-20T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:53:13","slug":"raghav-chadha-moves-delhi-hc-against-trial-court-order-dismissing-appeal-in-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/raghav-chadha-moves-delhi-hc-against-trial-court-order-dismissing-appeal-in-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Raghav Chadha moves Delhi HC against trial court order dismissing appeal in defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Raghav-Chadha-moves-Delhi-HC-against-trial-court-order-dismissing-appeal-in-defamation-case.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346642\" width=\"378\" height=\"222\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha has moved the Delhi High Court against the dismissal order of a trial court in a criminal defamation complaint lodged by Delhi BJP leader Chhail Bihari Goswami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 9, Special Judge MK Nagpal of Rouse Avenue Court dismissed the appeals filed by AAP leaders Satyendar Jain and Chadha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jain is currently incarcerated in an excise policy case. Judge Nagpal had upheld the magisterial court&#8217;s order summoning Jain and Chadha as accused in Goswami&#8217;s complaint, accusing Jain and Chadha of making defamatory remarks against him regarding the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had deemed the trial court&#8217;s order as perfectly correct and legal on facts as well as in law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma asked Chadha&#8217;s counsel to file additional documents and posted the matter for hearing next on December 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goswami&#8217;s complainant alleged that the defamatory remarks were intended to lower Goswami&#8217;s moral and intellectual character in the eyes of the general public. These remarks are related to the alleged misappropriation of funds of around Rs 2, 400-2, 500 crore belonging to North MCD being controlled or ruled by the BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha has moved the Delhi High Court against the dismissal order of a trial court in a criminal defamation complaint lodged by Delhi BJP leader Chhail Bihari Goswami. On November 9, Special Judge MK Nagpal of Rouse Avenue Court dismissed the appeals filed by AAP leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":346642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16689,16610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346643,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346641\/revisions\/346643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/346642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}