DELHI
Kejriwal, in the affidavit, claimed that he had not asked senior advocate Ram Jethmalani to use abusive language against Jaitely
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after an application was moved by Union Minister Arun Jaitley seeking perjury proceedings against the CM for allegedly filing a false affidavit. Kejriwal, in the affidavit, claimed that he had not asked senior advocate Ram Jethmalani to use abusive language against Jaitely.
Justice Manmohan has sought Kejriwal's response to the application within four weeks.
The application, moved by the Union Minister through his counsel Manik Dogra, stated that the affidavit filed by the AAP chief is "blatantly false and is an offence affecting the administration of justice".
On May 17, Jethmalani, appearing for Kejriwal, had used the word 'crook' during the proceedings of a defamation case filed by Jaitley against Kejriwal.
Jaitley, who had filed the civil defamation suit claiming Rs 10 crore damages from Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, had filed another defamation suit of Rs 10 crore against the Chief Minister alone after Jethmalani said that he had used the word 'crook' on the instance of his client.
The noted jurist had quit as the counsel for the CM in two defamation cases after Kejriwal said that he had not told Jethmalani to use the word 'crook' infront of the Joint Registrar during the proceedings in the Delhi High Court.
In his affidavit filed on July 24, Kejriwal had said that "it was inconceivable that he would even think of instructing the senior counsel to use such objectionable words".
The 10-page application, filed on Wednesday, requested the court to pass directions for registering an criminal complaint against Kejriwal for making false statements.
"Committing a perjury before this Hon'ble court by making false and untrue averments in pleadings squarely covers under Section 340 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the defendant no 1 (Kejriwal) deserves to punished in accordance with the law," the application stated.
On July 26, the high court had asked Kejriwal not to put "scandalous" questions to Jaitley during the cross-examination in the defamation suit filed by the Union minister against the chief minister and five others -- Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai.
The date for cross-examination of Jaitley was deferred from July 28 to August 28 after the counsel appearing for the CM sought time from the court.
Jethmalani had written a five-page letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Jaitley, where he had stated, "Ask your conscience, how many times you used worse abuses than a mere crook. You have hundred times told me to use the word 'crook'. You have hundred times told me to teach this crook a lesson."
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