Defamatory comments on Judiciary and RSS
Mumbai: In a major breakthrough, Dapoli court in Maharashtra on January 10 issued summons to Marathi journalist and Hindu bashing former Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar to be physically present before Dapoli court on April 16, 2012. The court ordered Dapoli Police Inspector to approach Kumar Ketkar to hand over summons for the second hearing on defamation suit filed by social activist NR Shigwan.
After thoroughly studying the evidences produced by lawyer of Shri
Shigwan, regarding objectionable comments made by Ketkar against
judiciary, the Court reached to the conclusion that there is substantial
content in Ketkar’s articles which defames Indian Judiciary and the
RSS.
Ketkar, in his defamatory article published in Marathi daily Loksatta
on October 25, 2010 about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Indian
Judiciary, gives an appall by saying that ‘RSS people with the
‘innocent’ and ‘harmless’ face have occupied key posts in media,
bureaucracy, educational institutions, in police department and even in
judiciary. Ketkar commented in the article that everyone has watched how
strong is the ‘network’ of RSS from media to judiciary in the
consequences of the Ayodhya verdict.
If Ketkar can’t prove his allegations against Indian Judiciary, he
might face stringent punishment in near future. The only way out for
Kumar Ketkar is to apologise in public for his defamatory comments and
to produce written apology to court, otherwise he would have to face
legal complexity. Petitioners have claimed that this is first court case
Kumar Ketkar is facing in his life for his baseless series of articles
targeting Hindu organisations. It would be interesting to see how Ketkar
tackles this legal difficulty. (Newsbharati.com)
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