New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today dismissed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking details of bank accounts, tax returns and other financial records of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who has filed a defamation suit against him.
The High Court said that Mr Kejriwal's plea, which also sought the bank statements of Mr Jaitley's family members and companies in which he or they had over 10 per cent shareholding, was a "fishing or roving enquiry" and did not have any merit.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also dismissed Mr Kejriwal's plea seeking removal of certain portions of Mr Jaitley's evidence claiming they were not there in the pleadings and replication of the BJP leader.
Mr Jaitley had filed the defamation suit in 2015 seeking Rs 10 crore damages from Mr Kejriwal and other AAP leaders Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai.
Mr Jaitley has already denied all the allegations.
It, however, did not frame the additional issue whether the plaintiff (Mr Jaitley) has to prove that alleged defamatory statements were made out of malice, after senior advocates Rajiv Nayar and Pratibha M Singh, appearing for the BJP leader, objected to it.
The High Court said that Mr Kejriwal's plea, which also sought the bank statements of Mr Jaitley's family members and companies in which he or they had over 10 per cent shareholding, was a "fishing or roving enquiry" and did not have any merit.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also dismissed Mr Kejriwal's plea seeking removal of certain portions of Mr Jaitley's evidence claiming they were not there in the pleadings and replication of the BJP leader.
Mr Jaitley had filed the defamation suit in 2015 seeking Rs 10 crore damages from Mr Kejriwal and other AAP leaders Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai.
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Mr Jaitley has already denied all the allegations.
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It, however, did not frame the additional issue whether the plaintiff (Mr Jaitley) has to prove that alleged defamatory statements were made out of malice, after senior advocates Rajiv Nayar and Pratibha M Singh, appearing for the BJP leader, objected to it.
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