Kangana Ranaut Approaches Sessions Court For Transfer Of Defamation Case Filed by Javed Akhtar

Two months after in-charge Chief Metropolitan Magistrate rejected actress Kangana Ranaut's application to transfer her defamation case from a particular Magistrate, the actor has approached the Sessions Court against that order.?

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Kangana moved the sessions court against a lower court's order rejecting her application seeking transfer of the criminal defamation case filed against her by lyricist Javed Akhtar.?

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The chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) had dismissed her plea seeking transfer of the case from the Andheri magistrate's court in October.?

Kangana's review application, filed before the Borivali sessions court through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, said the CMM failed to appreciate that the magistrate had "misused" his powers to cause intentional injury to the applicant (her case).?

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Earlier, Kangana had said in her transfer petition before the CMM that she had "lost faith" in the Andheri metropolitan magistrate's court as it indirectly "threatened" to issue a warrant if she failed to appear before it in a bailable offense.?

Kangana's plea said:

“That the magistrate (Andheri court) was intentionally causing prejudice to the rights and liberties of the applicant (Ranaut) with a biased mind, by inter alia indulging in the acts of threatening to issue an ‘arrest warrant’ against her to secure her presence before him for a ‘bailable’ and ‘non-cognizable offense,’"

What was the case about??

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Akhtar filed the defamation complaint before the Andheri court in November 2020 over certain statements made by Ranaut during a TV interview.

(With inputs from PTI)?

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