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| "The counsel for the complainant appears to have lost confidence over the courts of law and legal procedure... In my considered view, vide this applic
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| INDIA
, 5-May-2012
8:55:47 AM |
| A metropolitan magistrate hearing the defamation suit filed against Army Chief General VK Singh today pulled up petitioner Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh, a retired officer, for "overreaching and pressurising the court."
Metropolitan magistrate Sudesh Kumar was expected to decide today whether to summon the Army Chief and four others in the case. Instead, he transferred the case to another court, that of an additional chief metropolitan magistrate, saying the counsel for the complainant appears to have "lost confidence over the courts of law". It will now be heard on May 7.
"The tone and tenor of this application reflects an apparent attempt to overreach, browbeat and pressurise this court into falling into lines of dictates of the counsel for the complainant. It seems the counsel for the complainant, on each and every date, is taking advantage of wide media coverage this case is receiving and has been repeatedly pressurising this court for shorter dates," metropolitan magistrate Sudesh Kumar said.
"The counsel for the complainant appears to have lost confidence over the courts of law and legal procedure... In my considered view, vide this application, counsel Anil Kumar Aggarwal has exhibited lack of confidence over the court and the manner in which he had tried to dictate to this court as to what is required to be mentioned in the proceeding order sheets and as to what type of inquiries this court has to make reflects his lack of faith in this court. Hence, under these circumstances, I do not want to proceed further with the trial in the present complaint," he added.
Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh claims that allegations made against him in a March 5 press release issued by the Army are "completely false and concocted". One of those allegations is that he offered General VK Singh Rs. 14 crore in bribe on behalf of a company called Vectra in 2010. The Army Chief had caused a stir when he made that allegation in an interview in March.
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