Juhi Chawla
Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla on Thursday withdrew her petition from the Delhi High Court seeking dismissal of her suit against 5G wireless network technology. Justice Jayant Nath allowed the withdrawal of the petition following a statement by Chawla’s counsel, advocate Deepak Khosla. “The learned counsel for the plaintiff (Chawla) wishes to withdraw the application with liberty to avail the remedy before the appellate court. The application is dismissed as withdrawn,” the court said.
Chawla had moved the application demanding that his suit against the 5G roll out be declared “dismissed” instead of “dismissed”. Chawla’s counsel argued that the suit, which “never reached the stage of litigation”, can only be dismissed or returned in terms of the Code of Civil Procedure, and cannot be dismissed.
The court had also given a week’s time to deposit Rs 20 lakh after Chawla decided not to press the application for its apology. Chawla also withdrew the application for refund of court fee.
In June, the court had described the suit by Chawla and two others against the 5G roll out as “defective”, “abuse of process of law” and filed to “gain publicity” and cost 20 lakh rupees. was rejected with a cost of Rs.
Justice JR Midha said the suit, which raised questions about health hazards due to 5G technology, is “not maintainable” and full of “unnecessary reprehensible, frivolous and disturbing content”, which was dismissed. can be done.
The court said that the suit filed by the actress-environmentalist and others was to gain publicity, which was evident as Chawla circulated the video conferencing link of the hearing on her social media account, resulting in three repeated interruptions by unidentified miscreants. who continued to interrupt despite repeated warnings.
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