The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed through actor Kangana Ranaut seeking quashing of criminal defamation complaints initiated towards her through a Metropolitan Magistrate's court withinside the city on a grievance filed through Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar.
Ranaut, thru her, counsel Rizwan Siddiquee, had challenged the defamation complaints initiated in advance this year, announcing the magistrate's court in suburban Andheri had did not practice its thoughts to the case.
Ranaut stated in her plea the decrease court did now no longer independently look at the complainant or witnesses named withinside the grievance towards her, however, it alternatively relied simply upon the discretion of the Juhu police and initiated the case towards her. On Wednesday, Siddiquee instructed a single bench presided over through Justice Revati Mohite-Dere that the police inquiry into Akhtar's complaint turned into "one-sided."
My witnesses were by no means examined. The Magistrate must have ensured that no party is harassed," Siddiquee instructed the HC. Akhtar's counsel Jay Bharadwaj, however, instructed the bench that the magistrate had ordered the police inquiry after going thru Akhtar's complaint and excerpts of the interview wherein Ranaut had made the alleged defamatory remarks.
He in addition stated the police had summoned witnesses and involved persons, along with Ranaut, to make sure its inquiry turned impartial, however, the actor never answered the summons. Akhtar filed a crook grievance towards Ranaut in November an ultimate year earlier than the Andheri metropolitan Justice of the Peace for allegedly making defamatory and baseless remarks towards him in a tv interview given to journalist Arnab Goswami.