Delhi Court Thursday dismissed the revision petitions filed by Aam Aadmi Party leaders Raghav Chadha and Satyendar Jain and upheld an order passed by a magistrate court in the defamation case filed against them by BJP leader Chhail Bihari Goswami.
“…both these criminal revision petitions are dismissed and the impugned orders dated 16.02.2022 and 09.11.2022 are upheld being perfectly correct and legal on facts as well as in law,” said Special Judge MK Nagpal while dismissing the revision petitions.
Goswami had filed a defamation case against five AAP leaders, including Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Durgesh Pathak. Goswami alleged that the leaders had made statements regarding alleged misappropriation of around Rs 2,500 crore, belonging to the North MCD, which was under the BJP’s control then.
Chadha had challenged an order passed on February 6 last year by a magistrate court summoning him for the alleged offence.
The court of Special Judge MK Nagpal, however, upheld the summoning order, observing that there was a 10-month delay in filing the revision petition and only a three-month delay was allowed.
Both Chadha and Jain had also approached the court challenging an order passed in November last year wherein their discharge application was dismissed.
In this case, too, Judge Nagpal upheld the order passed, noting that the trial court or the sessions court does not have the power to discharge an accused after he has been summoned.
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