The order has been reserved by Gujarat High Court in the petitions which was filed by Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal and his party’s MP Sanjay Singh.
The AAP leaders have challenged the decision of a Sessions Court which upheld the summons issued against them by the Gujarat High Court in a defamation case.
The order was passed by the Single-judge Justice Hasmukh Suthar after hearing Senior Advocates Rebecca John and Nirupam Nanavaty who were representing Arvind Kejriwal and Gujarat University respectively.
The Gujarat University had file a defamation complaint against Kejriwal and Singh for defaming university for not disclosing the degree of Prime Minister Modi.
Rebeca John argued that the University cannot is not entitled to file defamation file because the statement alleged to be defamatory was made against someone else.
John argued that the statements aren’t against the University and also aren’t defamatory. It is against someone else. Statements do not state that University gave out a forged or duplicate degree. The target audience is someone else. I am not getting into right wrong moral immoral statement because this is a legal proceeding.
John added that the leaders never said that the university forged the degree.
John contended that there has been any defamatory imputation against the university. Both my clients have not said that the university has forged the degree. The context is not the university. Nowhere have the two men said that University has forged the degree or has given a farzi degree. There was no intent to defame the university at all,” .
The Counsel said that even after the complain there stands no allegations justifying Sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation)