New Delhi: The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Monday dismissed an interim plea by TMC chief Mahua Moitra, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha lately, searching for to restrain BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai from posting or circulating any “faux and defamatory” content material in opposition to her.
Justice Sachin Datta, whereas saying the order, stated “I’ve dismissed the injunction software”.
The excessive court docket had on December 20, 2023 reserved its order on the interim software after listening to the counsel for Moitra, Dubey and Dehadrai.
The expelled Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar in West Bengal, in her plea filed in October final yr, sought everlasting injunction in opposition to Dubey, Dehadrai, social media platforms X, search engine Google, YouTube and 15 media homes from making, publishing, circulating per se defamatory, ex facie false and malicious statements in opposition to her. She has additionally sought damages.
She later deleted all media homes and social media intermediaries from the memo of events and maintained her case solely in opposition to Dubey and Dehadrai.
Dubey had accused Moitra of taking bribes from businessman and Hiranandani Group CEO Darshan Hiranandani for asking questions in Parliament.
Citing a letter he acquired from advocate Dehadrai, Dubey stated the latter shared with him “irrefutable” proof of bribes allegedly having been paid to the TMC chief by the businessman.
In his letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, Dubey claimed 50 of the 61 questions she requested within the Lok Sabha until lately have been centered on the Adani Group, the enterprise conglomerate which the ex-TMC MP has typically accused of malpractices, extra so after it was on the receiving finish of a vital report by brief vendor Hindenburg Analysis.
Based mostly on these allegations, the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee had steered Moitra’s removing from the decrease home following which she was expelled on December 8, 2023.
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