A Delhi court on Thursday issued summons to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a criminal defamation case filed by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. .Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal of Rouse Avenue Court ordered Gehlot to appear before the Court on August 7. A detailed order is awaited. .Shekhawat filed the criminal defamation suit against Gehlot after the latter allegedly made a statement regarding the former's alleged involvement in the Sanjeevani scam..Shekhawat has alleged in his plea that Gehlot made the defamatory allegations in February, 2023 after meeting some people who lost their investment in Sanjeevani. These aggrieved people had alleged that Shekhawat was involved in the scam.It is Shekhawat's case that Gehlot was speaking to the media where he named the Jal Shakti minister and asked how such people become ministers in the Modi government..The very next day, Shekhawat held a press-conference where he refuted the allegations..On March 24, 2023, the Court had ordered Delhi Police to investigate whether or not Gehlot actually said that Shekhawat is an accused in the scam. A report was then filed by the Delhi Police and Shekhawat's counsel argued that all the questions put by the court have been answered in the affirmative in the report.
A Delhi court on Thursday issued summons to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a criminal defamation case filed by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. .Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal of Rouse Avenue Court ordered Gehlot to appear before the Court on August 7. A detailed order is awaited. .Shekhawat filed the criminal defamation suit against Gehlot after the latter allegedly made a statement regarding the former's alleged involvement in the Sanjeevani scam..Shekhawat has alleged in his plea that Gehlot made the defamatory allegations in February, 2023 after meeting some people who lost their investment in Sanjeevani. These aggrieved people had alleged that Shekhawat was involved in the scam.It is Shekhawat's case that Gehlot was speaking to the media where he named the Jal Shakti minister and asked how such people become ministers in the Modi government..The very next day, Shekhawat held a press-conference where he refuted the allegations..On March 24, 2023, the Court had ordered Delhi Police to investigate whether or not Gehlot actually said that Shekhawat is an accused in the scam. A report was then filed by the Delhi Police and Shekhawat's counsel argued that all the questions put by the court have been answered in the affirmative in the report.
