Kejri says ‘ sorry’ to Jaitley to settle defamation case
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal resumed his apology spree on Monday and said “sorry” to Union finance minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley in an attempt to scuttle the defamation case against him in the Delhi and District Cricket Association ( DDCA) row.
Mr Jaitley accepted the apology and the two submitted a joint plea to a Delhi court seeking to settle the criminal defamation case.
In 2015, Mr Jaitley had filed a criminal defamation complaint against Mr Kejriwal and AAP leaders Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai after they had made allegations of financial irregularities against him in DDCA of which he was president from 1999 to 2013. He sought their prosecution for offences that entail punishment of up to two years in jail, and filed a civil suit seeking ` 10 crore in damages.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal said the court will take up the application on Tuesday.
A joint plea by Union minister Arun Jaitley and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was moved before a Delhi court, on Monday, seeking to settle the criminal defamation case filed by the former against the AAP convenor in the DDCA ( Delhi and District Cricket Association) row.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal said the court will take up the application filed by Mr Jaitley and Mr Kejriwal through their respective counsels on Tuesday.
The move by Mr Kejriwal comes as no surprise as he has already apologised to several others. Earlier in the day, the two leaders had moved the high court jointly to “settle” their two- year- old litigation regarding the alleged defamatory statements made against the BJP leader after the AAP supremo apologised for his remarks.
The finance minister had on August 5 last year accused Mr Kejriwal and other AAP leaders — Kumar Viswas, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, Ashutosh, and Deepak Bajpai — of making a series of “false and defamatory” allegations. According to the joint application, other AAP leaders too have apologised for their statements against Mr Jaitley in connection with the irregularities in DDCA . However, a close aide of Mr Vishwas said that the AAP leader will not apologise to Mr Jaitley even as his party colleagues expressed regret for their comments.