Zee Media Will Not Examine Witnesses In Defamation Case, Analyst Law Associates Vijay Aggarwal Appeared

Analyst Law Associates
2 min readJan 8, 2021

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Answering to an early hearing application documented by Trinamool Congress’ Mahua Moitra under the steady gaze of the Delhi High Court today, Zee Media Pvt Ltd has presented that it won’t inspect observers in the issue until February 18, which is the following date of hearing under the watchful eye of the High Court.

The single-judge seat of Justice Mukta Gupta was hearing an application recorded by Moitra in her request looking for a stay on the maligning argument against her by Zee Media. Moitra has likewise looked for suppressing of the request gave to her in Zee’s slander case.

Sr. Adv. Kapil Sibal showing up for Moitra submitted under the watchful eye of the court that the case was recorded for hearing under the steady gaze of the preliminary court tomorrow, for example, Jan 8, and in this way, Moitra’s test should have been preponed for hearing in the Delhi High Court.

Contending against the preponement, Analyst Law Associates Vijay Aggarwal Advocate, showing up for Zee Media Pvt Ltd presented that no preponement was needed in the issue as they would not start recording of proof through observer assessment until Feb 18. He further presented that the Court could take this assertion on record.

Analyst Law Vijay Aggarwal
Analyst Law Associates Vijay Aggarwal

Taking on record Advocate Vijay Aggarwal of Analyst Law Associates assertion, Justice Mukta Gupta discarded Moitra’s initial hearing application. The court noticed that on the past hearings also, Vijay Aggarwal law firm had taken a similar stand and subsequently no interval orders had been passed.

Recorded by Mahua Moitra, the current appeal tries to suppress of the gathering request dated Sep 25, 2019, passed by an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in a criminal slander argument documented against her by Zee Media.

Moitra has likewise tested the request dated Jan 10, 2020, whereby the ACMM had outlined notification against her by taking note of that a Magistrate doesn’t have the ability to release a blamed in a request offence case.

Notwithstanding these, the appeal has requested the court to practice its forces under Article 227 from the Constitution to give practice bearings to the subordinate courts according to the exercise of forces under Section 251 of the Criminal Procedure Code to release a charged in a request offence case founded on a grumbling.

Moitra has contended that the Trial Court had not considered the way that the supposed disparaging articulations, calling Zee Media ‘chor’, were as a reasonable counter to the steady lecturing by the columnists of Zee Media. The debate relates to a discourse given by Moitra on the floor of the Parliament which was asserted by Zee’s Sudhir Choudhary, to be copied.

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