PM Modi’s Diploma Defamation Case: SC Dismisses AAP Chief Sanjay Singh’s Plea Towards Gujarat HC Order

The Supreme Court docket on Monday dismissed Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh’s plea difficult a Gujarat Excessive Court docket order refusing to quash summons issued in opposition to him in a defamation case for alleged feedback on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic qualification.

“We aren’t inclined to entertain the current petition,” a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta stated.

The bench stated the excessive courtroom had already noticed in its order that each one contentions accessible to the events had been stored open and the trial choose wouldn’t be influenced by any observations made within the order.

The excessive courtroom had on February 16 dismissed the pleas by Singh and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal searching for quashing of the summons issued in opposition to them within the defamation case.

Kejriwal and Singh had challenged within the excessive courtroom the summons issued by a trial courtroom within the case filed by the Gujarat College and the following order of the periods courtroom dismissing their revision functions in opposition to the summons.

Gujarat College registrar Piyush Patel had filed the defamation case in opposition to Kejriwal and Singh over their alleged feedback after the Gujarat excessive courtroom put aside an order of the chief data commissioner for offering details about Modi’s academic levels to them below the Proper to Data (RTI) Act.