Court agrees to examine defamation plea by NSA Ajit Doval's son against magazine, Jairam Ramesh

A Delhi court Tuesday agreed to examine a complaint filed by NSA Ajit Doval's son Vivek Doval seeking action against a magazine for alleged defamatory article and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for using that content to "deliberately maligne and defame" him to "settle scores with his father".

The complaint, which has named The Caravan as also the author of the article, will come up for hearing on January 30, when the court will record the statements of the witnesses named by Vivek Doval.

Besides Vivek Doval, there are two other witnesses -- his friend Nikhil Kapoor and business partner Amit Sharma -- who will record their statements in support of the criminal defamation complaint.

The complaint alleged that the article had termed the companies run by Vivek as "D-Companies", which was a very demeaning name for him and for the entire country.

"Please take cognisance of my complaint. Defamatory material was published against me," advocate D P Singh, appearing for Vivek Doval, told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal.

When the counsel made reference of D-Company, the judge said, "What does it (D-Company) mean?"