Javed Akhtar urged the excessive courtroom to dismiss the petition filed by the Queen actor. (File)
Mumbai:
Actor Kangana Ranaut’s petition for a keep on proceedings of a defamation criticism filed towards her was solely a delaying tactic, lyricist and complainant Javed Akhtar submitted to the Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday.
Javed Akhtar urged the excessive courtroom to dismiss the petition filed by the Queen actor.
Earlier this month, Kangana Ranaut approached the excessive courtroom for a keep on Javed Akhtar’s felony defamation criticism filed towards her in 2020. She urged the Excessive Courtroom to listen to the case together with a cross-complaint filed by her towards Javed Akhtar.
The defamation case towards Kangana Ranaut is within the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom in Andheri. A classes courtroom had stayed Kangana’s criticism towards Javed Akhtar.
In her petition earlier than the Excessive Courtroom, Kangana Ranaut acknowledged that each circumstances needs to be tried collectively as they’d genesis in a gathering (between Kangana Ranaut and Javed Akhtar) in 2016.
Javed Akhtar submitted an affidavit by way of his advocate Jay Bharadwaj stating Kangana Ranaut has not challenged any order handed by the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, and with none foundation, has sought a keep on the proceedings of the defamation criticism.
This was nothing however an try to delay the proceedings, Javed Akhtar acknowledged.
“Kangana Ranaut is just not difficult any judicial order handed by the decrease courtroom however has primarily based your entire writ petition on assumptions and presumptions coupled with an unwarranted optimism of the proceedings pending in courts under”, the affidavit mentioned.
On Tuesday, when Kangana Ranaut’s plea got here up for listening to earlier than a division bench headed by Justice Revati Mohite Dere, the Excessive Courtroom mentioned the task to listening to such petitions is with a single bench, and never with a division bench.
It directed the excessive courtroom registry to confirm the identical and place the petition earlier than the suitable bench for a listening to.
Javed Akhtar had claimed that Kangana Ranaut defamed and broken his “immaculate popularity” by dragging his title into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying in her interview with a information channel in July 2020.
In 2021, Kangana Ranaut hit again by submitting a counter-complaint towards Javed Akhtar earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, alleging felony intimidation and insult to modesty.
She had claimed that in her assembly with Javed Akhtar at his residence in 2016, he criminally intimidated her, demanding that she apologise to a co-star.
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