Delhi HC orders AAP leaders Saurabh Bhardwaj, Sanjay Singh, Durgesh Pathak and Dilip Kumar Pandey to take away posts in opposition to BJP chief Shyam Jaju and his son Sandesh Jaju

The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered AAP leaders Saurabh Bhardwaj, Sanjay Singh, Durgesh Pathak and Dilip Kumar Pandey to take down defamatory allegations made in opposition to former BJP vp Shyam Jaju and his son Sandesh Jaju from social media platforms. In an interim order in a defamation case filed by Shyam Jaju and Sandesh Jaju, the court docket additionally restrained the AAP leaders from making any additional allegations in opposition to the father-son duo.

Hearing the matter, the bench of Justice Navin Chawla mentioned that there’s a prima facie case for granting interim reduction to the petitioners. The defamation go well with was filed by Jaju and his son responding to allegations made in opposition to them by the AAP leaders at a press convention held on 22 January.

They had alleged that Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta and Shyam Jaju’s son Sandesh Jaju are incomes unlawful cash via an organization named Majboot Solutions Private Limited. Addressing the press convention, AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj had mentioned that when Adesh Gupta was the mayor of MCD from April 2018 to 2019, he had shaped this firm, and he and Shyam Jaju’s sons had been equal companions and administrators on this firm.

The AAP chief alleged that Adesh Gupta misused the ability of the mayor to purchase and promote loads of property via the corporate. Delhi Lokayukta had launched a probe after a lawyer lodged a criticism, and a number of other notices had been issued to Gupta on this regard however he didn’t reply, they additional alleged.

Apart from the press convention which was coated by media and streamed by AAP’s social media handles on numerous platforms together with YouTube and Twitter, the AAP leaders had additionally posted tweets making the allegations.

Following this, Shyam Jaju and his son Sandesh Jaju, a Chartered Accountant, filed a plea in opposition to the AAP leaders in search of a everlasting and necessary injunction on the statements made by the AAP leaders. They contended that the statements are ex facie false and unsubstantiated, per se defamatory, slanderous and libellous.

According to the petition, whereas Sandesh Jaju was a director and shareholder of the corporate, he had resigned from the put up of director in December 2018, inside simply three months of the incorporation of the Company. After that, he transferred his whole shareholding within the firm to Adesh Gupta’s son Yash Gupta in November 2019. The plea mentioned that until the time Jaju was concerned with the corporate, no monetary offers had been accomplished by the corporate. Therefore, he isn’t concerned within the transactions accomplished after his exit from the corporate.

The AAP leaders identified transactions accomplished in dates 05.02.2021, 25.02.2021, 04.03.2021 and 16.06.2021 to allege misdeeds. Therefore, it’s clear that these dates of the transactions talked about by the AAP leaders are after Sandesh Jaju left the corporate.

The AAP leaders had additionally alleged that the tackle of the corporate was 11-A, Ashoka Road, New Delhi, which implies the corporate was operating from the BJP headquarters in Delhi. But the plea states {that a} naked perusal of the certificates of incorporation of the Company will present that the registered tackle of the Company as on the date of incorporation was 9918/5, 4th Floor, Multani Dhanda, Paharganj, Delhi – 110 055.

The plea additional mentioned that Shaym Jaju has not obtained any discover from the Lokayukta, as alleged by the AAP leaders.

The petitioners level out that the dates of monetary dealings made by the corporate, and dates of Sandesh Jaju resigning from the board after which promoting his shares can be found in related data that are publicly obtainable on the web site of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. These data present that he was not concerned in any offers accomplished by Majboot Solutions, however regardless of that, the AAP leaders dragged his and his father’s identify into the difficulty.

The petition additionally mentioned that the AAP leaders lied whereas claiming that the corporate’s workplace was in BJP headquarters. The firm’s information exhibits that its workplace was in Paharganj when it was integrated, and its present tackle is at West Patel Nagar in West Delhi.

“It is therefore a matter of record as per the public documents of the said company, the registered address of the said company is not at 11 A, Ashoka Road, New Delhi – 110 001, as falsely alleged by the Defendant No. 1 in his Press Conference,” the petition filed by the BJP chief and his son mentioned.

Therefore, Shyam Jaju and his son Sandesh Jaju had filed the plea in search of a everlasting and necessary injunction in opposition to the AAP leaders completely injuncting them from making or publishing or disseminating any additional defamatory statements, in any kind or method, in relation to the allegations made within the defamatory press conferences. They additional urged the court docket direct the for AAP leaders to subject or publish an unconditional apology for making the false and defamatory statements.

Moreover, the petitioners additionally sought that the AAP leaders ought to pay Rs 5 crore to the “Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in emergency Situations Fund”, and urged the court docket to award exemplary prices and prices of the go well with.

The 403-page petition filed on the Delhi High Court included data of the corporate as supporting proof.