In Relief For Atishi, BJP’s Defamation Case Dismissed By Court

A Delhi court docket on Tuesday afternoon junked a BJP chief’s defamation criticism towards Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, who had been summoned in reference to the fees. Town’s Rouse Avenue court docket, because it quashed the summons, famous that the AAP chief’s remark had been made towards the opposition celebration as an entire and never particular person members of the organisation.

In April final 12 months Atishi – then a minister in former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s cupboard -alleged she, and different AAP leaders, had been approached by people linked to the BJP, demanding she be a part of the celebration or face ‘arrest’ by the Enforcement Directorate inside a month.

A case was subsequently filed by the BJP’s Praveen Shankar Kapoor.

Insisting the claims by Atishi and different AAP leaders towards the BJP have been false, Mr Kapoor complained that none of them had furnished any materials to substantiate their allegations.

This was a month earlier than Delhi was to vote within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The Rouse Avenue Court docket’s ruling will come as reduction for the AAP and the Delhi Chief Minister, as every preps for subsequent week’s Delhi election; Atishi is standing for re-election from her Kalkaji seat.

Furore over Atishi’s ‘be a part of BJP or…’ declare got here as senior AAP leaders, together with Mr Kejriwal and his former deputy, Manish Sisodia, have been in jail on corruption prices linked to the alleged Delhi liquor excise coverage rip-off. Atishi, in that point (when Mr Kejriwal was in jail), was one of many celebration’s two most high-profile leaders, the opposite being Higher Kailash MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj.