{"id":19494,"date":"2022-08-20T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=19494"},"modified":"2022-08-20T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:25:01","slug":"delhi-court-acquits-kejriwal-sisodia-in-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/08\/20\/delhi-court-acquits-kejriwal-sisodia-in-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Court Acquits Kejriwal, Sisodia in Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court here on Saturday acquitted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav in a criminal defamation case filed against them by a lawyer in relation to the 2013 Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand of Rouse Avenue Court ordered the politicians to be acquitted. A detailed order will be made available later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed by lawyer Surender Sharma, who had claimed that his candidature of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was cancelled in the 2013 at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma had alleged that in 2013, AAP had approached him and asked him to contest the Assembly elections in Delhi on a party ticket, stating that Kejriwal was pleased with his social works.<\/p>\n<p>He also filled the application form to contest the polls after Sisodia and Yadav allegedly told him that AAP&#8217;s Political Affairs Committee had decided to give him the ticket. However, he was later denied a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant claimed that on October 14, 2013, articles in leading newspapers carried &#8220;defamatory, unlawful and derogatory words used against him by the accused persons&#8221; which hampered his reputation in the Bar and the society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court here on Saturday acquitted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav in a criminal defamation case filed against them by a lawyer in relation to the 2013 Assembly elections. Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand of Rouse Avenue Court ordered the politicians to be acquitted. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19497,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions\/19497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}