Bombay HC dismisses Kangana Ranaut’s plea for stay in Javed Akhtar’s defamation

Bombay HC dismisses Kangana Ranaut’s plea for stay in Javed Akhtar’s defamation

In a fresh twist to the case, the
Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed actress Kangana Ranaut’s plea seeking stay on the criminal defamation filed by renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar
in 2020.

Reportedly, Kangana too had also sought for the clubbing of the case with the cross-complaint that she subsequently filed against Javed Akhtar.

A report further states that Justice Prakash Naik passed the order and held that the proceedings couldn’t be stayed or clubbed since Kangana Ranaut had never contended that the cases were cross-cases. Regardless of the same, Javed Akhtar’s complaint was filed first. As per Javed at this stage the relief sought in the petition cannot be granted.

Earlier it was never contended by the petitioner Kangana Ranaut that both cases are cross cases.

Although, the defamation case Javed Akhtar filed against Kangana Ranaut is ongoing before the Magistrate in Andheri, Kangana’s complaint against him was stayed by the Sessions Court.

In her writ petition, the actress had said that in a meeting in 2016, both cases had their genesis and therefore they should be tried together.

Notedly, in 2020, Javed had filed a complaint against Kangana Ranaut, when in an interview she had accused him of threatening her after calling her to his home amid her ugly fight with Hrithik Roshan over their alleged affair.

Kangana had then filed a counter complaint against Javed for alleged “extortion and criminal intimidation”. In her complaint she revealed that after her public dispute with her Krrish 3 co-star, Hrithik, the lyricist had called her and her sister Rangoli to his house with “malafide intentions and ulterior motives and then criminally intimidated and threatened” her.

News Edit K.V.Raman