Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has suffered a new setback. The Delhi High Court has refused to quash the defamation case filed against the Chief Minister. Kejriwal had filed a petition in the High Court seeking quashing of the case filed by BJP leader Rajiv Babbar in 2019.
Babbar had filed a defamation case against Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders, including Atishi, accusing them of defaming the BJP. He did this over the claim of Kejriwal and Atishi in which the AAP leaders had accused the BJP that the party had removed 30 lakh names from the voter list in Delhi, which mainly included people from the ‘Baniya, Muslim’ community.
According to Bar and Bench, Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta said that in a democracy, the public has the right to know the truth and correct information, but mudslinging by politicians cannot be allowed. In the present case, the allegations levelled by the Aam Aadmi Party against the BJP are defamatory and have been made with the aim of gaining political advantage by defaming the BJP.
