Days after media reports claimed that Jasleen Kaur had not attended a single court hearing against Saravjeet Singh in the last three years, Jasleen Kaur told The Quint that her “silence is being mistaken for weakness”.

In August 2015, Jasleen, then a student at New Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, wrote a Facebook post with a picture of Saravjeet, alleging that she had been verbally abused and harassed by him on the streets of Tilak Nagar in West Delhi. Taking cognisance of Jasleen’s post, the Delhi police had registered a case against Saravjeet and arrested him.

According to a follow-up of the story, done by The Print on 9 September 2018, Saravjeet has claimed that the case is now stuck in limbo because Jasleen has not attended any of the 13 hearings in the case, despite being summoned by the judge, and his life is being negatively affected by the stain on his reputation.

But speaking exclusively to The Quint, Jasleen has refuted the report in The Print, in which Saravjeet claimed that the judge had issued a bailable warrant against her and would issue a non-bailable warrant against her if she fails to show up at the next hearing. “No bailable warrant has been issued against me,” Kaur said, adding that the same can be verified from court officials.

When contacted by The Quint, Saravjeet repeated his claim that during a previous hearing, the judge in question had already issued a bailable warrant against Jasleen Kaur for her prolonged absence from hearings.