respondent no. 2 which has been referred to as ‘First Offending
Publication’ in the petition. On 07.05.2018, Sh. Dhruv Rathee
published on his Twitter account, an allegation that the Information
and Technology („IT‟) Cell of Bharatiya Janata Party („BJP‟) had
attempted to bribe a person to defame Sh. Dhruv Rathee and he had
drawn a reference to Uniform Resource Locator („URL‟) of the first
impugned publication, which has now been termed as ‘Second
Offending Publication’ in the petition. On 07.05.2018, the petitioner
herein, Sh. Arvind Kejriwal had reposted i.e. „retweeted‟ the second
offending publication of Sh. Dhruv Rathee, which is termed as the
‘Impugned Publication’, and which read as under:
9.
On
28.02.2019,
a
complaint
was
filed
by
the
complainant/respondent no. 2 Sh. Vikas Sankritayan @ Vikas
Signature Not Verified
Digitally Signed
By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN
Signing Date:05.02.2024
16:25:50
CRL.M.C. 6347/2019
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