New Delhi (ILNS): A Chandigarh court today issued a bailable warrant against former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, in a criminal defamation case filed by Rajinder Pal Singh, spokesperson for a religious organisation called Akhand Kirtani Jatha.

When the original summon (in March) to appear before the court was disregarded by Badal, the bailable warrant followed. The hearing is on November 27.

This is a January 2017 case, in which Baldal, after meeting Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at his house, had allegedly described the Jatha as the political face of a terrorist organisation.

The case attained importance and summons were issued after Chandigarh Police, in its inquiry report in the court on November 28, 2019, verified the authenticity of the comment.

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Today, arguing for Rajinder, advocate PIP Singh said that the comments in question, as purportedly made by Badal, were baseless, slanderous, defamatory.

The Supreme Court has, expectedly, overturned the shocking Chandigarh court order banning abortion in a case where a ten-year-old girl got pregnant through repeated rapes by her uncle. The subordinate court had refused her to undergo an MTP citing that law allows only MTPs under 20 weeks. She is 26-weeks pregnant.

On Monday (July 24), the apex court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud issued notice to the government to allow the girl to undergo MTP.

Responding to the plea for MTP, the bench ordered a medical board to look into the possible risk on the girl’s life due to the abortion. The bench asked the member secretary of Chandigarh Legal Services Authority to assist it as an amicus and get her examined by a board of doctors on July 26.

—India Legal Bureau​