Mumbai court reserves order on Kangana Ranaut’s plea seeking transfer of Javed Akhtar’s complaint

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Mumbai reserved its order after hearing actor Kangana Ranaut’s plea to transfer the Javed Akhtar defamation complaint from the Andheri magistrate court to somewhere else. The Additional CMM court will be delivering its order on Thursday.

Kangana Ranaut said that she did not want Magistrate RR Khan, who has been hearing lyricist Javed Akhtar’s complaint that was filed last year, to hear her case as she “has no confidence” in his court.

She claimed that Magistrate RR Khan had been unnecessarily summoning her. The court had issued summons to hear Kangana Ranaut on multiple occasions. However, the actor had not appeared because of which an available warrant was also issued.

On Wednesday Rizwan Siddiquee, appearing for Kangana Ranaut, argued that there was no sufficient ground for the magistrate to make threatening statements before the media on two separate occasions. He added that the magistrate was acting in a prejudiced manner by summoning the actor without giving reasons.

Advocate Jay K Bhardwaj, representing Javed Akhtar, argued that Kangana Ranaut had been deliberately missing the hearing on all occasions and therefore, her plea could not be recorded in terms of Section 251 Criminal Procedure Code after cognizance was taken by the magistrate.

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