PM Modi Degree Row: SC Dismisses AAP Leader Sanjay Singh’s Plea Against Gujarat HC Order – News18

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh’s plea challenging a Gujarat High Court order refusing to quash summons issued against him in a defamation case for alleged comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification.

“We are not inclined to entertain the present petition,” a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta said.

The bench said the high court had already observed in its order that all contentions available to the parties were kept open and the trial judge would not be influenced by any observations made in the order.

The high court had on February 16 dismissed the pleas by Singh and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking quashing of the summons issued against them in the defamation case.

Kejriwal and Singh had challenged in the high court the summons issued by a trial court in the case filed by the Gujarat University and the subsequent order of the sessions court dismissing their revision applications against the summons.

Gujarat University registrar Piyush Patel had filed the defamation case against Kejriwal and Singh over their alleged comments after the Gujarat high court 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.