The Delhi High Court rejected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking to stay proceedings in the criminal defamation case against him filed by Arun Jaitley on Wednesday.
"No illegality or question of sustainability can be made out," the court said, pronouncing the Delhi Chief Minister's request "devoid of merit", according to an NDTV report.
As per Kejriwal’s plea, there are two cases — one civil and the other criminal — filed against AAP leaders on the same allegations and the trial court should have stayed the proceedings in the matter, but it had declined.
Arun Jaitley had filed a criminal defamation complaint alleging that Kejriwal and five AAP leaders — Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai — had defamed him in the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) controversy.
(With ANI and NDTV inputs.)
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