{"id":343201,"date":"2025-03-07T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=343201"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:46:52","slug":"no-early-hearing-quashing-proceedings-rss-member-amit-malviya-defamation-case-delhi-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/03\/07\/no-early-hearing-quashing-proceedings-rss-member-amit-malviya-defamation-case-delhi-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Malviya defamation case | No early hearing of RSS Member\u2019s plea for quashing proceedings; Malviya undertakes to seek adjournment of Trial: Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Delhi High Court:<\/span> In an application under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804270\" target=\"_blank\">528<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804327\" target=\"_blank\">Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023<\/a> (&#8216;BNSS&#8217;) for speedy hearing filed by Santanu Sinha, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (&#8216;RSS&#8217;) member, who was being prosecuted for criminal defamation against Amit Malviya (&#8216;respondent 2&#8217;), a BJP politician, President of I.T. Cell, Co-In charge of West Bengal Chapter, regarding a Facebook post, a Single Judge Bench of Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, JJ., considering Malviya&#8217;s undertaking that he shall seek an adjournment in the complaint case before the Trial Court and request the Trial Court for adjournment till after a hearing in the present petition for quashing the proceedings, disposed of the plea for early hearing.<\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/11\/22\/delhi-hc-issues-notice-bjp-member-amit-malviya-after-complaint-criminal-defamation-against-rss-member\/\" target=\"_blank\">writ petition was filed by Santanu<\/a> under Article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001574969\" target=\"_blank\">226<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726967\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution<\/a> read with Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804270\" target=\"_blank\">528<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804327\" target=\"_blank\">BNSS<\/a> seeking quashing of the complaint filed by Amit Malviya before the Patiala House Court (&#8216;Trial Court&#8217;) and the order passed therein whereby notice was issued to Santanu in terms of the proviso to Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001803932\" target=\"_blank\">223<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804327\" target=\"_blank\">BNSS<\/a>. In the previous order dated 20-11-2024, the Court issued notice to Amit Malviya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court was informed, vide an affidavit, that the three Facebook posts in question were deleted with a view to put a quietus to the dispute. Santanu was seeking an early hearing in the writ petition due to the matter being listed before the Trial Court on 10-03-2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court bound Amit Malviya to his statement, made via an undertaking, that he shall seek an adjournment in the complaint case before the Trial Court and request the Trial Court for adjournment till after a hearing in the present writ petition.<\/p>\n<h3>Analysis<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court refused to allow the application due to the heavy board of the Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court also exempted Santanu from personal appearance before the Trial Court until further orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Santanu Sinha v. State of NCT Delhi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/eREgeb71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 SCC OnLine Del 1703<\/a>, decided on 03-03-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the petitioner:<\/span> Swarnendu Chatterjee, Deepakshi Garg, Amit Halder, Amit Roy, and Harshita Rawat<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the respondent:<\/span> ASC (Crl.) Amol Sinha, Kshitiz Garg, Ashvini Kumar, Chavi Lazarus, Sanskriti Nimbekar, Sr. Advocate Arvind Nayar, Amit Mishra, Kabir Shankar Bose, Abhijeet, Mitakshara Goyal and Siddhartha Sinha<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Constitution of India &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition?products_id=100647\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition?products_id=100647\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ebcwebstore\/images\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition-Gopal-Sankaranarayanan-ebc-front-cover.JPG\" alt=\"Constitution of India\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Amit Malviya had filed a criminal defamation complaint before the Patiala House Court against Santanu Sinha, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (&#8216;RSS&#8217;) member, regarding Facebook posts made by him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":314886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[75507,14761,2543,79549,68839,79550,79551,79534],"class_list":["post-343201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-amit-malviya","tag-criminal-defamation","tag-Delhi_High_Court","tag-early-hearing","tag-justice-manmeet-pritam-singh-arora","tag-quashing-proceedings","tag-rss-member","tag-santanu-sinha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No early hearing for quashing proceedings against RSS member in Amit Malviya defamation case: Delhi HC | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No early hearing of RSS Member\u2019s plea for quashing proceedings in Amit Malviya; 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