Saket Gokhale moves the High Court Delhi asks for the order to recall them to apologize, to compensate Lakshmi pure for defamation

The High Court of Delhi on Thursday issued a notification of an application filed by the Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale, in connection with a decision asking him to apologize on social media and pay Rs. 50 Lakh Damage brought Lakshmi Puri, former Secretary General of Indian Assistant to the United Nations, in her process of defamation against him.

Gokhale sought the recall of an order adopted by a coordinate bank on July 1 last year.

Purushaindra justice Kumar Kaurav He sought Puri’s response in Gokhale’s request to condemn delay in search of his exemption. The request was moved to the defamation process filed in 2021.

The court said he would consider the problem of recalling the verdict in question if the TMC leader is able to satisfy the court with the appearance of the delay.

During today’s meeting, Gokhale’s lawyer claimed that the decision was pronounced by the Coordinate Ex Part Bank, in his absence, after his lawyer ceased to appear in the defamation process.

On the other hand, the plea was opposed to Puri’s counselor, who claimed that Gokhale was put to the right before the decision by the Coordinate Bank.

Kaurav justice told Gokhale’s lawyer that the fact that his lawyer did not appear in front of the coordinate bank was his responsibility and that it was not as if he were not aware of the judicial procedures.

However, the court suggested and requested both Gokhale and pure to try to solve the problem.

“I ask you both … if possible … try to solve it, otherwise you come back,” the court said.

In December last year, Puri moved a plea of ​​contempt, claiming that Gokhale failed to comply with the decision of the last year. She sought the execution of the decision in question. Then, Gokhale was directed to submit a statement that revealed all the assets, properties and bank accounts, the problem is being taken into account before the Coordinated Bank.

The defamation process was deposited by the pure, being assaulted by Gokhale’s tweets, referring to a property bought by her in Switzerland. In Tweet, Gokhale raised questions about her and her husband, the assets of the Union Minister, Puri Hardeep. He also labeled the Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitaman, in Tweets and looked for an inquiry ed.

In court, a coordinate bank, while decreasing the process in favor of Puri, asked Gokhale to apologize in India times. He was also guided to apologize on his hander on Twitter, which must remain for 6 months.

Citing the Othello of William Shakespeare in the decision, the Court believed that Gokhale was doing “Roving accusations” against Lakshmi pure and her husband Hardeep pure.

The costume claimed that Gokhale’s tweet are false and defamatory. It was Puri’s case that the tweets were “motivated with wickedness and designed accordingly, lace with canard and involves the deliberate twisting of the facts.”

In July 2021, a coordinate bank led in favor of the pure, while decided the provisional request of the ordinance in the process.

Then the court guided Gokhale to take off the tweet in case within 24 hours. He was also prevented from posting any additional defamatory material against Puri.

Title: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri v. Saket Gokhale