The Delhi High Court has refused to discharge TV Today Network in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri over a 2011 Aaj Tak report, upholding the Magistrate’s order. The Court ruled that once summons are issued in a summons trial, the Magistrate cannot recall or annul the order.
A Pune special MP/MLA court has approved Rahul Gandhi’s request to convert his defamation trial concerning Vinayak Savarkar from a summary to a summons format. This allows Gandhi to present detailed evidence and cross-examine witnesses, deemed necessary by the judge due to the complexity of factual and legal questions involved.
