Don't waste court's precious time; Delhi court slapped Rs 10000 fine on AAP leader

NewsBharati 08-Jan-2018

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New Delhi, January 8: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh was fined Rs 10,000 by a Delhi court after the former requesting the court to re-record Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's statement in Hindi.

The court said that Ashutosh is wasting precious time of the court and he doesn't even have a 'slight discomfiture in English'. It is in relation to the defamation case filed by Jaitley against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders.

While dismissing the plea, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat said, the AAP leader's application was an attempt to derail the proceedings of the case and waste precious time of the court. It noted that the present application of Ashutosh itself was written in English.

The court also noted that the recording of evidence in Hindi was not possible due to infrastructural and technical bottlenecks since the computers being used supported only English software.

Jaitley had filed the criminal defamation case in 2015 against Ashutosh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai for allegedly making false statements accusing financial irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association, DDCA. The BJP leader was the president of DDCA from 2000 to 2013.

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