The Delhi High Court today allowed another joint settlement plea of Union Minister Arun Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and four other AAP leaders in a 10 crore rupee defamation suit filed against them by Mr. Jaitley in the DDCA row.
The plea for settlement was allowed by Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw as Kejriwal and the AAP leaders, Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai tendered an apology to Mr. Jaitley, who accepted it.
The court, however, said the defamation suit against AAP leader Kumar Vishwas will continue as he has not offered to settle the matter.
Earlier in the day, another single judge bench of the high court had closed the second defamation suit filed by Mr. Jaitley against Kejriwal over alleged use of objectionable word by the Chief Minister's former lawyer Ram Jethmalani in open court during the proceedings of the original defamation suit.
Mr. Kejriwal also apologized for Jethmalani's use of objectionable words against Mr. Jaitley during his cross-examination.
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