{"id":76058,"date":"2019-12-10T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76058"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:52:04","slug":"hc-stays-proceedings-against-kejriwal-in-criminal-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/hc-stays-proceedings-against-kejriwal-in-criminal-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"HC stays proceedings against Kejriwal in criminal defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings in a criminal defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for re-tweeting an allegedly defamatory video by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Suresh Kait issued notice to the state and the complainant Vikas Sankrityayan.Kejriwal had approached the high court seeking quashing of summons issued to him as an accused in the case and challenged two orders of a trial court which had refused to quash the summons against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A magistrate court summoned Kejriwal to appear before it on Aug 7, after a criminal complaint by the founder of social media page, &#8216;I Support Narendra Modi&#8217;, alleged the AAP leader had re-tweeted the defamatory video.The chief minister challenged the magistrate&#8217;s order before a sessions court, which dismissed his plea.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings in a criminal defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for re-tweeting an allegedly defamatory video by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in May 2018. Justice Suresh Kait issued notice to the state and the complainant Vikas Sankrityayan.Kejriwal had approached the high court seeking quashing of summons issued to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76060,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions\/76060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}