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Defamation case against Kesri deferred to Jan 27

Delhi Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R K Gauba has deferred the hearing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's defamation suit against former Congress president Sitaram Kesri to January 27.

The Delhi RSS had filed the case against Kesri for his alleged remarks that the Sangh was behind the Coimbatore bomb blasts. It had also made two newspapers, which published the remarks, respondents in the case.

Kesri's counsel Kailash Gambhir filed an application to separate the trial of his client from that of the newspapers.

The CMM then posted the case for January 27, asking RSS counsel Rajesh Gogna to file his reply.

A separate civil suit claiming damages worth Rs150,000 was filed at Purulia in West Bengal by the local RSS chief Ram Sunder Dixit. It has now been transferred to Delhi and is being tried along with the criminal defamation case.

Dixit claimed damages from Kesri for the mental agony and pain caused to him by the latter's 'defamatory' remarks.

Following the series of blasts in Coimbatore, Kesri had come out with a statement accusing the RSS of masterminding the incidents.

Dixit claims that his blood pressure shot up after reading the reports and he was bedridden for several days.

UNI

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