DDCA case: Court imposes Rs 10,000 cost on AAP leader Ashutosh

January 07, 2018 11:21

A Delhi court has imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on AAP leader Ashutosh for "trying to derail the proceedings" in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Arun Jaitley by seeking re-recording of the senior BJP

leader's statement in Hindi.

The court said that the AAP leader moved the application even though he did not have even a "slight discomfiture in English".

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 of which the BJP leader was the president from 2000 to 2013.

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

-- PTI

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