Kangana Ranaut may appear in magistrate court in Javed Akhtar defamation case

Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut He is expected to appear in the Andheri magistrate court today in the defamation case filed against him by senior poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar. Last week, his request to quash the defamation case was rejected by the Bombay High Court.

The single bench judge of Justice Revati Mohite Dere had announced the dismissal after hearing Kangana’s counsel Rizwan Siddiqui and Jai Bhardwaj on behalf of Javed Akhtar. At present, it is not clear whether the actor will appear in court or not.

Ranaut, through his lawyer Rizwan Siddiqui, had challenged the defamation proceedings initiated by the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate’s court earlier this year, saying the court had failed to put its mind to the matter.

Akhtar’s lawyer Jai Bhardwaj, however, told the high court that the magistrate had directed a police probe after going through the lyricist’s complaint and interview excerpts of Ranaut in which he made the alleged defamatory remarks. Akhtar had filed a criminal complaint against Ranaut in November last year before the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate for allegedly making derogatory and baseless remarks against him in a television interview to journalist Arnab Goswami.