A Delhi court has summoned senior advocate and BJD MP Pinaki Misra on March 5 in connection with a criminal defamation complaint filed by another lawyer for allegedly making objectionable remarks against him in an interview last year.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the order after examining the complainant as a part of pre summoning evidence.
In his complaint, advocate Siddhartha Singh has sought Misra's prosecution under sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code for alleged defamatory remarks against him in an interview to a newspaper in August last year.
He said the remarks made by Misra "diminished his public image and severally affected his professional life".
The court said, "Let fresh summons be issued to the accused to face trial on March 5."
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