Court junks defamation complaint by Sandeep Dikshit against AAP’s Atishi, Sanjay Singh

In his complaint, Dikshit alleged that Atishi had shared live proceedings of a press conference on her X handle with the caption ‘BJP is helping Congress in the Delhi election’. It was Dikshit’s allegation that Atishi had made false, malicious and defamatory statements aimed at tarnishing his image at a critical time preceding the elections.

“In a triangular contest, each candidate has to fight his own battle, however, given how elections are fought in India, it is not uncommon for each candidate to allege that other two rival candidates are colluding,” noted ACJM Dalal.

In the 12-minute-plus press conference, Singh had claimed that rivals Congress and BJP were colluding with each other in the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections. The respondents (Singh and Atishi) alleged that Congress was fielding candidates only to cut AAP’s vote share.

Atishi, on the other hand, had named a Congress candidate who she claimed was receiving funds from the BJP. She had said Dikshit was making the same allegations against AAP as the BJP.