Allahabad Court Dismisses Shooter Vartika Singh's Plea Against Smriti Irani

The court said that when asked about the petitioner, Ms Irani had said the petitioner had links with the Congress and also had a criminal history.

The Allahabad High Court has dismissed international shooter Vartika Singh's plea challenging an MP/MLA court order rejecting her defamation complaint against Union minister Smriti Irani.

The Lucknow bench of the high court said that while replying to journalists' questions, if the petitioner was said to be associated with the Congress party or the "Gandhi family", it was not her defamation.

The bench of Faiz Alam Khan passed the verdict on March 5 which was uploaded on Monday.