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The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected a petition filed by actress Kangana Ranaut seeking a stay of trial arising out of a defamation complaint filed against her by lyricist Javed Akhtar. according to a report According to Livelaw.in, Bombay HC dismissed the writ petition filed by Kangana in the defamation case filed by Javed in 2020. Kangana had also sought to have the case merged with the counter-complaint she later filed against him. Also read: Javed Akhtar asked to appear in court over Kangana Ranaut’s complaint against him for “criminal intimidation and insult”
Bombay High Court Order
According to the report, Justice Prakash Naik passed the order and held that the proceedings could not be stayed or struck as Kangana Ranaut had never maintained that the cases were cross cases and despite the same, Javed Akhtar’s complaint was filed first. He said, “At this stage the relief sought in the petition cannot be granted. Earlier the petitioner (Kangana) never contended that both the cases are cross cases.”
Kangana Ranaut vs Javed Akhtar case
While Javed Akhtar’s defamation case against Kangana Ranaut is ongoing before the Andheri magistrate, the Sessions Court stayed Kangana’s complaint against him. In her petition, the actress had said that both cases had their genesis in a meeting in 2016; therefore, they must be judged together.
In 2020, Javed had filed a complaint against Kangana Ranaut, when in an interview she accused him of threatening her after calling her at his house amid her ugly fight with Hrithik Roshan over their alleged affair.
Kangana then filed a counter-complaint against Javed for alleged “extortion and criminal intimidation”. She said in her complaint that after her public spat with her Krrish 3 co-star Hrithik, the lyricist had called her and her sister Rangoli to her house with “evil intentions and ulterior motives and then intimidated her and criminally threatened.”
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