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Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court directed Chief Minister of delhi Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav to appear before it.
Rouse Avenue Court’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey passed an order directing Kejriwal, Sisodia and Yadav to appear before it on December 3.
Court has said they have to appear before it “without any failure” in a criminal defamation complaint filed in 2013 by an election ticket aspirant.
Court in its order said,”All the three accused persons are exempted through their counsel for today only and they are directed to join the proceedings on the next date of hearing without any failure,”.
Facts-
In 2013 complainant Surender Kumar Sharma, had alleged that he was approached by volunteers of AAP who had asked him to contest the Delhi Assembly elections on a party ticket and said Arvind Kejriwal pleased him.
Complainant alleged that he filled up the application form to contest the polls after being told by Sisodia and Yadav that AAP’s Political Affairs Committee had decided to give him the ticket but it was later denied to him.
Surender Kumar Sharma later filed a defamation complaint against all these leaders and had pleaded that his candidature from AAP was cancelled in 2013 and published in various newspapers in a defamatory manner.
The Petitioner Yogesh Gaur, claimed to be the legal heir of the complainant Surender Kumar Sharma, who died recently. In his application, Gaur has sought substitution of the complainant.