NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday termed as "malicious" and "a sheer mockery" Arvind Kejriwal 's cross examination of finance minister Arun Jaitley in a defamation case lodged by the BJP leader against the Delhi chief minister and five other AAP leaders.The cross examination of Jaitley by Kejriwal, which had begun in March 2017, ended today after more than 300 questions were put to the Union minister over around 11 days. The proceedings had also witnessed the high court raising serious objections against the manner in which questions were being put to the BJP leader.Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw today said the trend of the questions put to the BJP leader "shows the malicious nature of the cross examination" and added, "sheer mockery is happening here".The strong remarks by the court came after Kejriwal's lawyer said he needed to get instructions on whether his client was admitting to having made the alleged defamatory statements attributed to him."Such a vacillating stand cannot be permitted. You (defendant Kejriwal) cannot admit or deny on the basis of the direction in which the wind is blowing. This shows the malicious nature of the cross examination. Sheer mockery is happening here," it said.The day's hearing saw no senior advocate appearing for Kejriwal after the exit of two senior advocates -- Ram Jethmalani and Anoop George Chaudhari -- under acrimonious circumstances.While Jethmalani had quit in July 2017 alleging that Kejriwal had lied about not instructing him to ask scandalous questions to Jaitley in the court, a charge denied by the AAP leader, Chaudhari severed his ties with the chief minister on February 15 alleging that improper briefing by junior counsel had caused embarrassment to him.Today's hearing also witnessed controversial situations when the court suggested to Kejriwal's lawyer, Anupam Srivastava, to go out of the court room and call his client to find out if he is disowning all the statements attributed to him in the defamation case and asked "do you need your client to sit by your side while the cross examination is going on?"The court's query as to whether Kejriwal was admitting the statements attributed to him came when his lawyer was asking Jaitley who operated his twitter handle and the contents posted there.Alleging that "tampered" documents have been filed in court, the lawyer asked Jaitley where, when and who had downloaded, saved and printed the defamatory statements attributed to Kejriwal and the other five Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.The court was also displeased with the lack of "homework" done by the lawyers representing the chief minister as they had not inspected the case files, nor marked the documents they wanted to show to Jaitley during his cross examination."You are wasting the time of the court. For god's sake inspect the files. You are not showing the kind of importance that you are giving the matter. Go about it systematically," the court told the lawyers for all the defendants, including Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.During Jaitley's cross examination today on behalf of Kejriwal, the BJP leader was asked whether he was aware about the unstarred questions raised in the Lok Sabha regarding illegalities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) while he was heading it, when he was its patron-in-chief and after he had left the organisation.Unstarred questions are those which are not discussed on the floor of the House, but are replied to in writing.Jaitley denied knowledge about these questions.He was also asked about a year 2013 report of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) regarding DDCA, to which he said the findings pertained only to procedural lapses and there was no mention of any illegality or impropriety ever committed by him.After the cross examination on behalf of Kejriwal concluded, advocate Mehmood Pracha began cross examining Jaitley on behalf of AAP leader Sanjay Singh.However, the initial questions put to Jaitley on behalf of Singh prompted the court to remark, "by the trend of cross examination, it appears the motive is to prolong the same".Jaitley's cross examination on behalf of Singh will continue on March 19.Jaitley was being cross-examined in the Rs 10-crore defamation suit he has filed against Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders-- Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai.They had alleged financial irregularities in the DDCA when Jaitley was its president. The BJP leader has denied the allegations.