Court Stays Proceedings Against Shashi Tharoor Over "Scorpion" Remark

The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed trial court proceedings in a defamation case filed by a BJP leader against Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor over the latter's 'scorpion' remark vis-a-vis Prime Minister NarendraModi and issued notice. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait ordered the stay and issued the notice on Tharoor's plea for quashing of the criminal defamation case filed by BJP leader Rajiv Babbar. The plea was filed through advocate Gaurav Gupta and argued by senior advocates KapilSibbal and VikasPahwa. In his plea, Tharoor challenged a trial court order to summon him for allegedly committing offences under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, pleading that the said order was "bad in law" and "against the principles of criminal jurisprudence". (IANS)

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