Court okay with Sheila,Khurana truce

Nine months after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and former BJP Delhi chief Madan Lal Khurana expressed their mutual desire to bury the hatchet in a defamation case...

Nine months after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and former BJP Delhi chief Madan Lal Khurana expressed their mutual desire to bury the hatchet in a defamation case,the Delhi High Court on Monday accepted Khuranas plea to withdraw the case on account of settlement through mediation.

A Division Bench headed by Justice Vikramjit Sen gave the judicial nod for withdrawing the appeal filed by Khurana against a single-judge order asking him to lead the evidence in the case filed by Dikshit around seven years ago.

The terms of mediation were settled on Friday and the court gave us the liberty to withdraw the appeal. Dikshit will also withdraw the civil suit filed by her against Khurana. The matter has been settled on amicable terms,for it had been pending for long and no useful purpose was to be served by protracting it further, Khuranas counsel H S Phoolka told Newsline.

The case had been lingering in the High Court since September 2003,when Dikshit slapped defamation charges on Khurana and sought a symbolic sum of Rs 101 as damages. Dikshit had taken offence at Khuranas allegation that she had received Rs 15 crore from private power companies for her political campaign in return for the release of Central funds.

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