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AHMEDABAD: A metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad gave Tejashwi Yadav, the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, a summons on Monday in a prison defamation case introduced in opposition to him for remarking that “only Gujaratis can be thugs (fraudsters).” The court docket additionally ordered Tejashwi Yadav to seem earlier than the Additional Metropolitan Magistrate court docket on September 22.
On Monday, the court docket of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate summoned Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav in a prison defamation grievance introduced in opposition to him beneath sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. The court docket issued him the summons primarily based on a grievance filed by one Haresh Mehta, a social employee and businessman from Ahmedabad.
“The court had conducted an inquiry against Yadav under section 202 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and had found sufficient grounds to summon him on the basis of a complaint filed by Haresh Mehta,” P.R. Patel, counsel for the complainant, advised the media.
Mehta (63) had filed his grievance in court docket together with the proof of Yadav’s assertion made earlier than the media in Patna on March 21 this yr.
The complainant mentioned that the assertion had been made in public and known as your complete Gujarati neighborhood thug to defame and humiliate all Gujaratis within the public.
The complainant mentioned he’s additionally a Gujarati, and when he got here throughout the information on a digital platform, he realized that such a defamatory assertion would make a non-Gujarati look down upon a Gujarati as a “thug”.
AHMEDABAD: A metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad gave Tejashwi Yadav, the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, a summons on Monday in a prison defamation case introduced in opposition to him for remarking that “only Gujaratis can be thugs (fraudsters).” The court docket additionally ordered Tejashwi Yadav to seem earlier than the Additional Metropolitan Magistrate court docket on September 22.
On Monday, the court docket of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate summoned Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav in a prison defamation grievance introduced in opposition to him beneath sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. The court docket issued him the summons primarily based on a grievance filed by one Haresh Mehta, a social employee and businessman from Ahmedabad.
“The court had conducted an inquiry against Yadav under section 202 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and had found sufficient grounds to summon him on the basis of a complaint filed by Haresh Mehta,” P.R. Patel, counsel for the complainant, advised the media.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Mehta (63) had filed his grievance in court docket together with the proof of Yadav’s assertion made earlier than the media in Patna on March 21 this yr.
The complainant mentioned that the assertion had been made in public and known as your complete Gujarati neighborhood thug to defame and humiliate all Gujaratis within the public.
The complainant mentioned he’s additionally a Gujarati, and when he got here throughout the information on a digital platform, he realized that such a defamatory assertion would make a non-Gujarati look down upon a Gujarati as a “thug”.
