Wellington: New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum has dropped his defamation action against former Test player John Parker after Parker retracted and apologised for comments linking McCullum to the sacking of his predecessor Ross Taylor.
McCullum's lawyers on Tuesday issued a statement in which Parker withdrew his claim that McCullum had advance knowledge of coach Mike Hesson's intention to remove Taylor as New Zealand captain.
The claim was contained in a nine-page document issued by Parker and endorsed by a number of former New Zealand players which condemned the way in which Taylor's sacking was handled.
In Tuesday's statement Parker said he "did not intend to discredit Brendon McCullum and sincerely apologises to him for any harm to his reputation which may have been caused."...
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Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh was granted bail by a court in Delhi on Friday in connection with a defamation case filed by BJP President Nitin Gadkari against him. Digvijaya had accused Gadkari of having business links with BJP MP Ajay Sancheti, who allegedly pocketed large sums of money in the coal block allocation Scam. ...
10:54 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday recorded his statement in a local court in connection with a defamation case he had filed against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti in 2003. However, due to paucity of time, the process and his cross examination by the defence lawyer remained incomplete. ...
10:51 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Chennai: A court in Chennai on Monday issued summons to DMK President M Karunanidhi and S Selvam, Printer, Publisher and Editor of Tamil daily 'Murasoli', to appear before it on December 18 in connection with a defamation case filed by the Tamil Nadu Government. The defamation complaint was filed against Karunanidhi for making comments allegedly defaming Labour Minister ST Chellapandian and Selvam for publishing them in the party organ's August...
08:20 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday raided seven places in the country in connection with the former army chief General VK Singh bribery case. The raids are still on, reports said. An FIR was registered against Lt Gen Tejinder Singh under prevention of corruption act. Gen VK Singh had disclosed in a press release that he was offered a kickback of Rs 14 crore by a...
11:10 AM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Monday dragged Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh to the court by filing a criminal defamation case against him at a Delhi's court. The BJP president hit out at Digvijaya Singh who had said that Gadakri along with his business partner Ajay Sancheti had made a profit of 490 crore from the Chhattisgarh coal mines. Gadkari argued before Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar that Singh's...
03:51 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The defamation suit filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari against Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh is likely to be heard on Monday. Gadkari sued Digvijaya after the latter attempted to link Gadkari and his close aide Ajay Sancheti to the coal blocks allocations controversy. The hearing will take place in Patiala House Court post 2 pm. However, Gadkari's lawyers say that the hearing will happen...
11:28 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: A local court on Wednesday ordered issue of summons to DMK chief M Karunanidhi, his son and party treasurer MK Stalin besides publishers and editors of two English dailies in various defamation cases filed by the Jayalalithaa government. Principal Sessions Judge P Kalayarasan ordered issue of summons to Karunanidhi and S Selvam, printer, publisher and editor of 'Murasoli', the DMK mouthpiece, to appear before the court on October 10...
02:59 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Businessman Abhishek Verma, an accused in the naval war room leak, on Saturday failed to appear in a Delhi court for recording his evidence in a cheating and defamation case filed by him against his former partner based in the US. Verma filed the case against his former partner and US-based lawyer C Edmonds Allen and former Indian partner Arjun Arora. Verma, along with his Romanian wife Anca...
10:13 AM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: Former Army chief General VK Singh was on Friday granted bail in the defamation case filed against him by a former military intelligence chief, Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh. Lt Gen Tejinder Singh had contended that General Singh had defamed him by claiming in a press release that he offered the chief a bribe of Rs 14 crore. Along with him, serving officers Vice Chief of Army Staff...
10:07 AM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court refused to stay the appearence of three sitting Army officials in the Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh defamation case at Patiala House court. The Patiala House Court has issued summons to Vice chief of Army staff Lt Gen SK Singh, Additional Director General of public information Major General SL Narshiman and Director General of public information staff officer Lt Col Hitten Sawhney. All the...
12:58 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback for former Army chief General VK Singh, he, along with four other top serving officers of the Indian Army have been summoned by a Delhi court on July 20. The court ruled that there was sufficient material to proceed against them in a criminal defamation case filed by Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh. This is the first time that top ranking officials of the Indian...
09:15 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: Former Army Chief General (Retired) VK Singh has been summoned by a Delhi court on July 20 in the Lt General (Retd) Tejinder Singh defamation case. Gen (Retd) VK Singh and four others have been summoned by the court to depose in the case on July 20. General (Retd) VK Singh is the first former Army chief to have been summoned by the court. Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder...
04:25 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is expected to decide on summoning former Army Chief Gen V K Singh and four others named in a criminal defamation case. The case has been filed by former Lt Gen Tejinder Singh, who has trashed allegations that he offered a bribe to clear a deal for 600 Tatra trucks. The court had reserved its order for Friday after going through the file related to...
08:11 AM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to give its verdict on Friday on summoning former Army Chief General VK Singh and four others in a criminal defamation case filed by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh. The court had reserved its order for Friday after going through the file related to the issuance of the March 5 press release which had accused Tejinder Singh of offering a bribe of Rs...
11:44 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The defamation case against Army Chief General V K Singh was on Monday transferred to a different court after the one, hearing it earlier, refused to proceed with it due to the loss of confidence of petitioner and former Lt Gen Tejinder Singh's counsel in it. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal transferred the case to a new court of Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja for further proceedings...
07:59 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court reserved for May 5 its order on Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh's defamation complaint against Army Chief General VK Singh and four others. Tejinder Singh had already recorded his statement and pre-summoning evidence in support of his complaint and had denied having made Rs 14 crore bribe offer to the Army Chief to strike a defence deal. The court had on April 10 reserved its...
04:55 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court recorded Lt General (Retired) Tejinder Singh's statement in the defamation case filed against Army Chief General VK Singh and four others on Tuesday. Denying allegations against him Lt Gen (Retd) Singh said, "The allegation that I offered bribe on behalf of Tatra and Vetra Ltd is absolutely false and ill-founded. I was absolutely devastated with this sudden attack on me by the Army headquarters. The...
01:15 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has filed a defamation case against Tamil magazine Nakkeeran for reportedly carrying a report about her eating beef. Nakkeeran reportedly published a cover story about the chief minister eating beef and The Hindu carried the article the very next day. Enraged AIADMK workers vandalised Nakkeeran's office after the story went viral. ...
07:24 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: Bombay High Court on Thursday directed that the two defamation cases filed by Shiv Sena MLA Sureshdada Jain against social activist Anna Hazare, at Jalgaon and Mumbai, be clubbed and tried together. Jain had lodged the two complaints in May 2003 after Hazare made certain allegations against him at a press conference. Hazare had moved the High Court seeking clubbing of the two cases and a trial at Mumbai...
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