The Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom on Monday requested a trial courtroom to adjourn proceedings in a defamation case towards actor Kangana Ranaut until after September 8.

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The courtroom acted on Kangana’s plea looking for quashing of defamation proceedings initiated towards her in a Bathinda courtroom over a tweet in 2021 in the course of the farmers’ agitation towards the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines.

The defamation grievance was filed by Mohinder Kaur of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Bathinda on January 5, 2021.

“The high court has issued notice of motion on the petition for September 8. The state’s counsel accepted the notice and took time to file the reply. The high court has asked the trial court to adjourn the matter beyond the date fixed before the high court,” Kangana’s lawyer Abhinav Sood said.

The actor claims none of the allegations mentioned prima facie establish a case of defation and the same was based on “false and baseless”. The grievance has been filed with an ulterior motive and is the end result of political vendetta, Kangana claimed, looking for quashing of the summoning order of February 22 handed by the judicial Justice of the Peace (firstclass), Bathinda.

“The courtroom in a mechanical method analyzing the veracity of the handed with out and within the absence of a correct inquiry,” she said, adding there was no evidence on record that could substantiate against her.

In her tweet, she had allegedly compared Mohinder Kaur with Shaheen Bagh dadi, an elderly woman protester at Delhi’s demonstration site against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and had indicated that such could be hired.

In her complaint, Mohinder Kaur said the actor had made “false imputations and remarks” towards her within the tweet by claiming that she was the lady who was a part of the Shaheen Bagh protest. “By using such remarks, the actor lowered my reputation and preige,” Mohinder Kaurst.

Kangana’s plea says a number of Twitter and Facebook customers posted two photographs of an aged girl stating that she is 82-year-old Bilkis Bano, popularly often known as Shaheen Bagh dadi. Several folks on social media claimed that each the ladies within the {photograph} are the identical and that Bilkis Bano was additionally current on the farmers’ protest. The submit was merely retweeted by the petitioner and not one of the remarks have been made by her.