NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday termed as "malicious" and "a sheer mockery" Arvind Kejriwal's pass exam of finance minister Arun Jaitley in a defamation case lodged via the BJP leader towards the Delhi chief minister and 5 other AAP leaders.
The pass exam of Jaitley via Kejriwal, which had begun in March 2017, ended these days after greater than 300 questions have been put to the Union minister over around 11 days. The complaints had also witnessed the prime courtroom elevating severe objections towards the manner in which questions have been being put to the BJP leader.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw these days mentioned the trend of the questions put to the BJP leader "shows the malicious nature of the cross examination" and added, "sheer mockery is happening here".
The sturdy remarks via the courtroom came after Kejriwal's legal professional mentioned he had to get instructions on whether his consumer used to be admitting to having made the alleged defamatory statements attributed to him.
"Such a vacillating stand cannot be permitted. You (defendant Kejriwal) cannot admit or deny on the basis of the direction in which the wind is blowing. This shows the malicious nature of the cross examination. Sheer mockery is happening here," it mentioned.
The day's listening to noticed no senior suggest appearing for Kejriwal after the go out of 2 senior advocates -- Ram Jethmalani and Anoop George Chaudhari -- under acrimonious cases.
While Jethmalani had hand over in July 2017 alleging that Kejriwal had lied about not educating him to invite scandalous questions to Jaitley within the courtroom, a rate denied via the AAP leader, Chaudhari severed his ties with the manager minister on February 15 alleging that flawed briefing via junior suggest had caused embarrassment to him.
Today's listening to also witnessed debatable eventualities when the courtroom instructed to Kejriwal's legal professional, Anupam Srivastava, to head out of the courtroom room and contact his consumer to find out if he is disowning all of the statements attributed to him within the defamation case and requested "do you need your client to sit by your side while the cross examination is going on?"
The courtroom's query as to whether Kejriwal used to be admitting the statements attributed to him came when his legal professional used to be asking Jaitley who operated his twitter maintain and the contents posted there.
Alleging that "tampered" paperwork were filed in courtroom, the legal professional requested Jaitley where, when and who had downloaded, stored and published the defamatory statements attributed to Kejriwal and the other 5 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.
The courtroom used to be also displeased with the loss of "homework" finished via the lawyers representing the manager minister as they had not inspected the case information, nor marked the paperwork they sought after to turn to Jaitley all over his pass exam.
"You are wasting the time of the court. For god's sake inspect the files. You are not showing the kind of importance that you are giving the matter. Go about it systematically," the courtroom told the lawyers for all of the defendants, including Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.
During Jaitley's pass exam these days on behalf of Kejriwal, the BJP leader used to be requested whether he used to be mindful in regards to the unstarred questions raised within the Lok Sabha regarding illegalities within the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) whilst he used to be heading it, when he used to be its patron-in-chief and after he had left the organisation.
Unstarred questions are the ones which are not mentioned on the flooring of the House, however are answered to in writing.
Jaitley denied knowledge about those questions.
He used to be also requested about a yr 2013 report of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) regarding DDCA, to which he mentioned the findings pertained handiest to procedural lapses and there used to be no point out of any illegality or impropriety ever dedicated via him.
After the pass exam on behalf of Kejriwal concluded, suggest Mehmood Pracha started pass examining Jaitley on behalf of AAP leader Sanjay Singh.
However, the preliminary questions put to Jaitley on behalf of Singh prompted the courtroom to commentary, "by the trend of cross examination, it appears the motive is to prolong the same".
Jaitley's pass exam on behalf of Singh will continue on March 19.
Jaitley used to be being cross-examined within the Rs 10-crore defamation swimsuit he has filed towards Kejriwal and 5 other AAP leaders-- Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.
They had alleged financial irregularities within the DDCA when Jaitley used to be its president. The BJP leader has denied the allegations.
The pass exam of Jaitley via Kejriwal, which had begun in March 2017, ended these days after greater than 300 questions have been put to the Union minister over around 11 days. The complaints had also witnessed the prime courtroom elevating severe objections towards the manner in which questions have been being put to the BJP leader.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw these days mentioned the trend of the questions put to the BJP leader "shows the malicious nature of the cross examination" and added, "sheer mockery is happening here".
The sturdy remarks via the courtroom came after Kejriwal's legal professional mentioned he had to get instructions on whether his consumer used to be admitting to having made the alleged defamatory statements attributed to him.
"Such a vacillating stand cannot be permitted. You (defendant Kejriwal) cannot admit or deny on the basis of the direction in which the wind is blowing. This shows the malicious nature of the cross examination. Sheer mockery is happening here," it mentioned.
The day's listening to noticed no senior suggest appearing for Kejriwal after the go out of 2 senior advocates -- Ram Jethmalani and Anoop George Chaudhari -- under acrimonious cases.
While Jethmalani had hand over in July 2017 alleging that Kejriwal had lied about not educating him to invite scandalous questions to Jaitley within the courtroom, a rate denied via the AAP leader, Chaudhari severed his ties with the manager minister on February 15 alleging that flawed briefing via junior suggest had caused embarrassment to him.
Today's listening to also witnessed debatable eventualities when the courtroom instructed to Kejriwal's legal professional, Anupam Srivastava, to head out of the courtroom room and contact his consumer to find out if he is disowning all of the statements attributed to him within the defamation case and requested "do you need your client to sit by your side while the cross examination is going on?"
The courtroom's query as to whether Kejriwal used to be admitting the statements attributed to him came when his legal professional used to be asking Jaitley who operated his twitter maintain and the contents posted there.
Alleging that "tampered" paperwork were filed in courtroom, the legal professional requested Jaitley where, when and who had downloaded, stored and published the defamatory statements attributed to Kejriwal and the other 5 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.
The courtroom used to be also displeased with the loss of "homework" finished via the lawyers representing the manager minister as they had not inspected the case information, nor marked the paperwork they sought after to turn to Jaitley all over his pass exam.
"You are wasting the time of the court. For god's sake inspect the files. You are not showing the kind of importance that you are giving the matter. Go about it systematically," the courtroom told the lawyers for all of the defendants, including Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.
During Jaitley's pass exam these days on behalf of Kejriwal, the BJP leader used to be requested whether he used to be mindful in regards to the unstarred questions raised within the Lok Sabha regarding illegalities within the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) whilst he used to be heading it, when he used to be its patron-in-chief and after he had left the organisation.
Unstarred questions are the ones which are not mentioned on the flooring of the House, however are answered to in writing.
Jaitley denied knowledge about those questions.
He used to be also requested about a yr 2013 report of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) regarding DDCA, to which he mentioned the findings pertained handiest to procedural lapses and there used to be no point out of any illegality or impropriety ever dedicated via him.
After the pass exam on behalf of Kejriwal concluded, suggest Mehmood Pracha started pass examining Jaitley on behalf of AAP leader Sanjay Singh.
However, the preliminary questions put to Jaitley on behalf of Singh prompted the courtroom to commentary, "by the trend of cross examination, it appears the motive is to prolong the same".
Jaitley's pass exam on behalf of Singh will continue on March 19.
Jaitley used to be being cross-examined within the Rs 10-crore defamation swimsuit he has filed towards Kejriwal and 5 other AAP leaders-- Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.
They had alleged financial irregularities within the DDCA when Jaitley used to be its president. The BJP leader has denied the allegations.
Defamation case: Kejriwal concludes Jaitley's cross-examination
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