HC notice to Uma Bharti on Digvijaya’s plea

  • | Thursday | 12th July, 2018

Singh had moved the HC after the trial court turned down his application for permission to cross-examine Uma Bharti in a defamation suit. Bhopal: A single-judge bench of Madhya Pradesh high court (MPHC) on Wednesday issued notice to Union minister Uma Bharti in response to a petition filed by senior Congress leader Digvjjaya Singh. Ajay Gupta appeared in the case on behalf of Singh. The single-judge bench of Justice S K Palo on Wednesday issued notice to Bharti in response to Digvjjaya’s petition.Digvjjaya had filed a defamation suit against Bharti when she as chief ministerial candidate of the BJP in 2013 state assembly election had accused then chief minister Digvijaya Singh of a Rs 1500 crore scam during his decade-long tenure.The defamation suit is still pending in the trial court, but Digvijaya moved the HC after his application for permission to cross-examine Bharti was rejected by the trial court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) on September 29 last year.The case would now come up for hearing four week later.

Bhopal: A single-judge bench of Madhya Pradesh high court (MPHC) on Wednesday issued notice to Union minister Uma Bharti in response to a petition filed by senior Congress leader Digvjjaya Singh. Singh had moved the HC after the trial court turned down his application for permission to cross-examine Uma Bharti in a defamation suit. The single-judge bench of Justice S K Palo on Wednesday issued notice to Bharti in response to Digvjjaya’s petition.Digvjjaya had filed a defamation suit against Bharti when she as chief ministerial candidate of the BJP in 2013 state assembly election had accused then chief minister Digvijaya Singh of a Rs 1500 crore scam during his decade-long tenure.The defamation suit is still pending in the trial court, but Digvijaya moved the HC after his application for permission to cross-examine Bharti was rejected by the trial court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) on September 29 last year.The case would now come up for hearing four week later. Ajay Gupta appeared in the case on behalf of Singh.

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