Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Tuesday reserved its order for March 9 on a criminal defamation contempt case filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for allegedly defaming him in the DDCA controversy.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass, who had earlier reserved the order for pronouncement of the judgment on Tuesday, fixed it for the next date on the complaint in which Jaitley has alleged that Kejriwal and other AAP leaders had made defamatory statements that he and his family had made pecuniary gains by associating with a private firm involved in sports management. The court had earlier recorded statements of Jaitley and other complainant witnesses in the case. On January 5, Jaitley had appeared in the court and said that Kejriwal and five AAP leaders had made “false and defamatory” statements. He had rejected the charge that he had siphoned off money from DDCA for his own benefit.