The Supreme Court on February 26 halted trial court proceedings against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after his counsel agreed that a “mistake” was made by retweeting an allegedly defamatory video circulated by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee related to the Bharatiya Janata Party IT Cell.
A Bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked advocate Raghav Awasthi to get instructions from his client, Vikas Sankrityayan, who had filed the criminal defamation complaint against Mr. Kejriwal, as to whether he wanted to close the case in view of the Chief Minister’s apology. The Bench then listed the case on March 11.
“I can say this much that I made a mistake by retweeting,” senior advocate A.M. Singhvi addressed the court on behalf of Mr. Kejriwal.
