Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut has approached a classes court right here difficult a bailable warrant issued by a Justice of the Peace in a defamation grievance filed towards her by lyricist Javed Akhtar.
Ranaut‘s plea, filed on Wednesday, is slated to be heard on March 15, her lawyer stated.
The Andheri metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s court had on March 1 issued a bailable warrant towards the actor after she failed to seem earlier than the court.
Magistrate R R Khanhad earlier issued a summons to her in February. As the actor failed to seem, the court issued a bailable warrant towards her and posted the matter for listening to on March 26.
Ranaut was at liberty to method the next court to problem the summons however she can’t evade look earlier than his court, the Justice of the Peace stated.
Earlier, the police had submitted a report on Akhtar’s grievance, saying an offence of defamation was prima facie made out towards Ranaut.
Akhtar has accused the actor of creating false statements about him and damaging his fame when she spoke a few ‘coterie’ in Bollywood in the aftermath of Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise final June.
Kangana’s lawyer Rizwan Siddiquee stated her plea in the classes court could be heard on Monday.
The summons itself was issued with out complying with the Code of Criminal Procedure as 4 witnesses named by Akhtar in his grievance had not been examined on oath, he stated.Â
