The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against his defamation case summons on Monday.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against the Delhi High Court’s decision to uphold the summons in a criminal defamation case against him for retweeting a purportedly offensive video that YouTuber Dhruv Rathee circulated in May 2018 will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday. .
A three-judge bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R Mahadevan is likely to hear the case in which Kejriwal has admitted that he “made a mistake” by retweeting the allegedly defamatory video. On March 11, the apex court had asked Kejriwal if he wanted to apologise to the complainant in the case. Kejriwal had on February 26 told the apex court that he had made a mistake by retweeting an allegedly defamatory video related to the BJP IT cell. The lawyer appearing for complainant Vikas Sankrityayan had told the apex court that Kejriwal could apologise on the social media platform.
