New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday was postponing the hearing of the former Minister of Union M.j.
Akbar appealed the release of journalist Priya Ramani in the case of defamation that he believed.
The problem arose to hear the argument because of leave to appeal, before the Mukta Gupta court.
The court is happy to allow the application to leave to appeal.
The problem will appear in time.
M.j, Akbar was represented by senior advocate Rajeev Nargu and Geeta Lutra, given a direction by a team from Karanjawala & Co., led by Sandeep Limb, senior partner and consisting of VIFK Suri, Niharika Karanjawala and Apoorva Pandey, advocate.
Priya Ramani is represented by Bhavook Chauhan, Advocate.
On February 17 last year, a Delhi court has released Ramani in this case, with an additional head of Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey holding: “The woman has the right to give her complaint on the platform of his choice and even after decades.” The next court said that reputation rights cannot be protected at the cost of rights to dignity.
“Women cannot be punished for raising sounds against sexual harassment under the pretext of complaints of defamation.” After the #Metoo movement in 2018, Ramani made allegations of sexual abuse against Akbar.
Based on this, he submitted a defamation case against him and resigned as a United minister.
The trial began in 2019 and lasted for almost two years.
In 2017, Ramani wrote an article for Vogue where he described his trials to be sexually harassed by former bosses during his work interview for publication.
One year later, he revealed that the person who was mentioned as a loose in the article Akbar.
Akbar told the court that the allegations of Ramani were fictitious and cost his reputation of Stellar.
Ramani, on the other hand, opposes these claims, asking for the truth as his defense and said that he made accusations in good faith, public interest, and for public goodness.
Judgment in this case is important because it sets a precedent for similar cases that arise from the #Metoo movement that changes the discourse.
#Metoo: Delhi HC opposes the attraction of MJ Akbar challenging the release of Priya Ramani
