Court issues notice to ex-Army Chief on plea to cancel bail

Former Army Chief General V K Singh was today issued notice by a Delhi court asking for his response on a plea filed by Lieutenant General (retd) Tejinder Singh, who has sought cancellation of bail granted to him in the criminal defamation case against him and four others.

Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja fixed the matter for hearing on December 9 saying that he would hear the arguments on the plea in the presence of counsel for V K Singh.

"I will go through it (Tejinder's plea) after the other party (V K Singh) will be here," the magistrate told advocate Anil Aggarwal, who appeared for Tejinder.

Tejinder, who had filed a criminal defamation case against the former Army Chief and four others, had on November 25 moved a plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to V K Singh claiming that he had "repeated defamatory accusations" against him in his recently book released.

Tejinder, in his application, alleged the former Army Chief has written his autobiography 'Courage and Conviction' in which he made certain defamatory accusations against him despite the restrain order passed by the court on October 3.

The court, on October 3, while disposing of Tejinder's plea filed earlier seeking cancellation of bail granted to V K Singh, had warned the former Army Chief against making defamatory remarks targeting Tejinder saying it would lead to cancellation of his bail granted earlier.

The magistrate had also issued certain directions saying V K Singh should "mend his ways and refrain from repeating the defamatory remarks" against the complainant and not to use derogatory language about the court.

In his plea, Tejinder has said, "the accused number one (V K Singh) has violated the restrain order dated October 3, 2013 imposing conditions upon the accused for continuing the bail granted to the accused.