On Monday, the High Court of Punjab & Haryana asked a Trial Court to adjourn proceedings in a defamation case against actor Kangana Ranaut till after Sept 8.
The Court acted on Kangana’s plea seeking quashing of defamation proceedings initiated against her in a Bathinda Court over a tweet in 2021 during the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s 3 farm laws.
The defamation complaint was filed by Mohinder Kaur of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Bathinda on Jan 5, 2021.
“The high court has issued notice of motion on the petition for September 8. The state’s counsel accepted the notice & took time to file the reply. The high court has asked the trial court to adjourn the matter beyond the date fixed before the high court,” Kangana’s Advocate Abhinav Sood said.
She claims none of the accusations mentioned prima facie establish a case of defamation & the same was based on “false & baseless allegations”. The complaint has been filed with an ulterior motive & is the outcome of political vendetta, Kangana claimed, seeking quashing of the summoning order of Feb 22 passed by the judicial magistrate (first class), Bathinda.
“The court passed the order in a mechanical manner without examining the veracity of the allegations & in the absence of a proper inquiry,” Ranaut said, adding there was no evidence on record that could substantiate allegations against her.
In her tweet, she had allegedly compared Mohinder Kaur with Shaheen Bagh dadi, an elderly woman protester at Delhi’s demonstration site against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, & had indicated that such protesters could be hired.
In her complaint, Mohinder Kaur said the actor had made “false imputations & remarks” against her in the tweet by claiming that she was the woman who was part of the Shaheen Bagh protest. “By using such remarks, the actor lowered my reputation & prestige,” Mohinder Kaur complained.
Kangana’s plea says several Twitter & Facebook users posted two images of an elderly woman stating that she is 82-year-old Bilkis Bano, popularly known as Shaheen Bagh dadi. Several people on social media claimed that both the women in the photograph are the same & that Bilkis Bano was also present at the farmers’ protest. The post was merely retweeted by the petitioner & none of the remarks were made by her.
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