PM Modi Degree Case: Supreme Court Upholds Summons To Sanjay Singh In Defamation Case
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New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday declined a plea of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh against the issuance of summons issued by trial court in a defamation case filed by Gujarat University
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over his alleged comments in relation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree.
Earlier, Gujarat University registrar Piyush Patel had filed a defamation case against Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh over their alleged comments after the Gujarat high court had set aside an order of the chief information commissioner for providing information about Modi’s educational degrees to them under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Notably, the Supreme Court had in January stayed the proceedings before a trial court on the defamation complaint filed by the Gujarat University against Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh, news agency PTI reported.
While hearing the matter, the bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta had passed the order while hearing Sanjay’s Singh’s plea seeking a transfer of the case pending before a trial court in Gujarat outside the state, preferably in Kolkata, PTI added.
Moreover, the Supreme Court had asked the Gujarat high court to take a decision within four weeks on a plea filed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders seeking quashing of the summonses issued to them by the trial court.
