 "Union Minister Smriti Irani")
Union Minister Smriti Irani
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed worldwide shooter Vartika Singh’s plea difficult an MP/MLA court docket order rejecting her defamation grievance in opposition to Union minister Smriti Irani.
The Lucknow bench of the excessive court docket stated that whereas replying to journalists’ questions, if the petitioner was stated to be related to the Congress occasion or the “Gandhi family”, it was not her defamation.
The bench of Faiz Alam Khan handed the decision on March 5 which was uploaded on Monday.
Vartika Singh had filed a case within the Sultanpur MP/MLA court docket, accusing Irani of defamation. The case was dismissed by the particular court docket on October 21, 2022.
The petitioner had challenged the MP/MLA court docket’s order within the excessive court docket.
Singh’s allegation was that when journalists requested Irani concerning the allegations made by the petitioner in opposition to her private secretary, Irani described the petitioner as a “pawn” of the Congress and stated she was having direct hyperlinks with the Gandhi household.
Quoting Irani’s whole dialog with journalists, the excessive court docket stated that earlier than giving the assertion in query, Irani talked about different issues and through this time she didn’t even take the identify of the petitioner.
The court docket stated that when requested concerning the petitioner, Irani had stated the petitioner had hyperlinks with the Congress and likewise had a legal historical past. The court docket discovered that legal instances have been registered in opposition to the petitioner.
The bench stated that if the court docket appears at Irani’s statements, she was criticising a political occasion and she or he had no intention of defaming the petitioner.
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First Published: Mar 12 2024 | 7:02 AM IST
