Kangana Ranaut’s Plea Over Javed Akhtar Defamation Suits Is Reserved By The High Court

Kangana Ranaut’s plea of quashing the criminal defamation case filed against her by a metropolitan magistrate’s court on a complaint filed by Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar was reserved by The Bombay High Court this Wednesday. The case was started earlier this year by the actor along with her attorney Rizwan Siddiquee who challenged the defamation proceedings stating that the magistrate’s court in suburban Andheri did not put their complete mind into the case. It was also stated that rather than checking the complainant or witnesses named in the complaint against her the lower court relied on the discretion of the Juhu police and started the case against her.

Rizwan Siddiquee confided in a single bench ruled by Justice Revati Mohite-Dere that the police inspection into Akhtar’s objection was “one-sided.”

“My witnesses were never examined. The magistrate should have ensured that no party is harassed,” Siddiquee informed the HC, as reported by Times Of India. To this Akhtar’s counsel, Jay Bharadwaj informed the bench that the judge had ordered the police inquiry after going through the interview in which Ranaut had made the alleged defamatory comments. Bharadwaj also said the inspector had called in the witnesses and concerned persons, including Kangana Ranaut, to assure its inspection was honest, but the actor never replied to the summons.