The decide additionally directed the complainant to provide copy of the grievance to Punia’s lawyer.© AFP
A Delhi courtroom Wednesday granted wrestler Bajrang Punia exemption from private look for the day in a legal defamation grievance filed in opposition to him by wrestling coach Naresh Dahiya. Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Yashdeep Chahal, who had summoned Punia earlier than the courtroom immediately, granted him the aid after his lawyer sought exemption on medical floor, claiming the wrestler was unable to look since he was affected by fever. The courtroom famous the submissions and adjourned the matter for September 14.
The decide additionally directed the complainant to provide copy of the grievance to Punia’s lawyer.
The courtroom had summoned the wrestler, holding it was of the “prima facie” view that each one substances of defamation have been made out in opposition to him.
The complainant has claimed that Punia, together with different wrestlers/individuals, made defamatory remarks in opposition to him at a press convention at Jantar Mantar on Could 10 throughout a protest in opposition to alleged sexual harassment of some girls wrestlers by the outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
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