Delhi HC asked AAP leaders to remove defamatory post against BJP’s Shyam Jaju

In an interim order, Delhi HC directed several AAP leaders to remove defamatory content against BJP leader Shyam Jaju and his son, Sandesh Jaju which the opposition made during the press conference.

The court while passing the interim order stated that a prima facie case has been made out in favor of the plaintiffs.

The BJP leader and his son approached the High Court and filed a civil suit stating that the statements made by the Defendants Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, Sanjay Singh and Dilip Pandey against the Plaintiffs, in a series of press conferences held on January 22 which are ex facie false and unsubstantiated, per se defamatory, slanderous and libellous.

The aforesaid series of press conferences deliberately coincided with certain political events in Delhi and were carried out through a media blitzkrieg to cause irreversible damage to the reputation of the Plaintiffs.

The suit also stated that it also caused irrevocable harm to the personal, professional and mental well-being of the Plaintiffs. The bench of Justice Navin Chawla on Friday asked the AAP leaders to remove the defamatory content and to desist from making future statements against the Plaintiffs.