The Delhi High Court on September 27, 2022, ordered Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its five leaders to refrain from posting any defamatory or factually incorrect tweets, re-tweets, hashtags, videos of press conferences against Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena and his family.
The order came on a defamation suit filed by Mr. Saxena against AAP and five of its leaders including Sanjay Singh, Atishi, Durgesh Pathak, Saurabh Bhardwaj and Jasmine Shah — for levelling “false” and “derogatory” allegations against him.
The controversy erupted when AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak, during a Delhi Assembly in late August, accused Mr. Saxena of corruption involving the change of demonetised notes in 2016 during his tenure as head of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC). AAP has alleged a ₹1,400-crore scam and demanded a CBI probe against Mr. Saxena.