Judge acted judiciously, without bias: says court while rejecting Kangana Ranaut's plea in defamation case

The extra chief metropolitan Justice of the Peace court right here has held that the Andheri metropolitan Justice of the Peace, which is presiding over the defamation case filed by lyricist Javed Akhtar towards Kangana Ranaut, has acted "judiciously" and didn't present any bias towards the actor. Just as a result of the court proceeds with the case by following the process of legislation, it doesn't imply that it's biased towards the applicant, extra chief metropolitan Justice of the Peace S T Dande stated in her order in which she rejected Ranaut's plea that sought switch of the case to another court.

The extra chief metropolitan Justice of the Peace had rejected Ranaut's petition on October 21, however its detailed order was made accessible on Saturday. The actor had filed the switch petition final month, saying that she had "lost faith" in the Andheri metropolitan Justice of the Peace's court because it not directly “threatened” her of issuing a warrant if she failed to look earlier than it in a bailable offence.

The petition additionally alleged that the court was biased towards her. However, Dande, in her order, dominated that the metropolitan Justice of the Peace, tenth court, Andheri, has given a good alternative to the accused to stay absent by granting all her exemption functions.

"I have perused all the orders passed by the Metropolitan Magistrate, Andheri. He has passed the orders judiciously," she stated.

Moreover, the order handed by the Andheri court was confirmed by the classes court. Further, the excessive court had dismissed Ranaut's plea in search of quashing of the legal defamation proceedings initiated towards her by the Justice of the Peace, the court stated.

"It shows that Metropolitan Magistrate, Andheri, has acted judiciously and is not biased against the applicant," the CMM court stated.

"Merely because the court proceeds with the case by following the procedure of law, it does not mean that court is biased against the applicant/accused," it added.

It additional held that the case can't be transferred from one court to a different on the premise of mere "apprehension". The court stated it was of the view that Ranaut has didn't make out a optimistic, concrete case to point out that her apprehension is affordable.

"Unless some positive, concrete case is made out showing that there is reasonable apprehension of not getting a fair trial or fair justice from the concerned court, the proceedings cannot be transferred from one court to another on mere vague and general allegations," it stated.

"If on the basis of false allegation, the matter is transferred, it will affect the morale of the presiding officer," it added.

The court dominated that there are not any grounds made out for switch of the case from the metropolitan Justice of the Peace's court, Andheri, to every other court. Akhtar (76) had filed the criticism in the Andheri court in November final 12 months, claiming that Ranaut had made defamatory statements towards him in a tv interview, which allegedly broken his status.

In his criticism, Akhtar claimed that Ms. Ranaut dragged his title throughout an interview while referring to a 'coterie' present in Bollywood, following the alleged suicide by actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June final 12 months.

Ranaut has additionally moved a counter-complaint in the Andheri court towards Akhtar for alleged "extortion and criminal intimidation" earlier than the metropolitan Justice of the Peace court.

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