Appearing on behalf of Jaitley, advocates Manoj Taneja and Manik Dogra submitted that the apology tendered to ... Read More

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley withdrew his defamation case against AAP leader Kumar Vishwas before a city court after the latter “unequivocally” withdrew the defamatory allegations he had made in relation to alleged irregularities in the DDCA .

In his apology letter Vishwas said, “I state that Arvind Kejriwal , as our party chief and convener, had lied to us and instigated us to make these false allegations against you. It was only at the insistence of Arvind that I made these allegations against you and your family members.”

Appearing on behalf of Jaitley, advocates Manoj Taneja and Manik Dogra submitted that the apology tendered to their client was accepted. Therefore, in view of the apology, Jaitley's complaint was withdrawn. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate court of Samar Vishal, as a result, acquitted Vishwas of the criminal defamation case. In the letter, Vishwas, wrote, “I without any reservation, unequivocally withdraw all the defamatory and baseless allegations made by me against you and your family members, whether made in print, electronic or social media.”

The AAP leader then “sincerely apologized” to the harm caused to the reputation to Jaitley and his family members as a result of his “false and baseless” allegations. Following apologies tendered in April by AAP members Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai, Jaitley had accepted the apology.

