Court grants exemption to Kejriwal in defamation case

New Delhi, June 6: A court here on Monday granted exemption from persol appearance to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case filed by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri. Kejriwal’s counsel Rishikesh Kumar and Neha Rastogi told Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh that Kejriwal has to attend a cabinet meeting and he would not be able to attend the court.

Allowing Kejriwal’s plea for exemption, the court fixed July 8 as next date of hearing. The court was hearing a defamation complaint filed by Bidhuri alleging that Kejriwal had made defamatory statements against him, terming him a crimil, in an interview to a private channel on July 17 last year. Bidhuri told the court that Kejriwal’s defamatory statements had maligned his image. (IANS)