On Friday, the Supreme Court refused to entertain the petition by an actress and deputy BJP Kangan Ranaut, who was looking for a cancellation of a criminal defamation filed against her for a tweet with reference to a woman who attended the protests of farmers 2021, Livelaw reported.
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He heard the case with a bench including justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.
As soon as the matter was accepted, the MEHTA judiciary expressed reservations about comments on the petitioner. “What about your comments? It wasn’t a simple re-tweet. You have added your own comments. You added spices,” said Mehta, as Livelaw says.
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The Ranaut moved the Supreme Court after her request, which tried to cancel a complaint against her, was rejected by the High Court in Panjab and Haryana. The High Court justified that the leader of BJP did not show how her tweet, which was allegedly slander, was made in good faith, nor reported.
Reportedly Kangana Ranaut Retweet, X with his own commentary on older protesting Mahinder Kaur and said, “It’s the same Dadi who performed in Time magazine for being the most powerful Indian …
Mahinder Kaur, 73, from Bahadurgarh Jandian Village in Panjab in Bathinda District, filed a complaint in January 2021 at Bathinda Court. She argued that the actor had done “false imputation and notes” against her through the retweet and incorrectly identified it as the same “Dadi”, who participated in Shaheen Bagh protest, PTI reported.
The tweet incorrectly identified Mahinder Kaur as Bilkis Dadi, a well -known character from Shaheen Bagh protests, and indicated that protesters like her were paid for participation, evoked will and led to a slander complaint.
Kangana’s legal team at the High Court in Punjab and Haryana claimed that the summoning order issued by the Bathinda court was invalid and violated the law on criminal proceedings.
At the peak of agricultural protests in 2020-21, Kangana Ranaut made several controversial notes and described the farmers as “terrorists”. In February 2021 x, she removed some of her contributions for violating policies of the hateful expression of the platform.
(With Livelaw, Agency)
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