Delhi HC asks journalist Saket Gokhale to immediately take down tweets on Lakshmi Puri
The Hindu
He had questioned how the former Indian diplomat could have bought a house for 1.6 million Swiss Franc in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2006 with her then income.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed freelance journalist Saket Gokhale to immediately take down all his alleged defamatory tweets related to Union Minister Hardeep Puri's wife and former Indian diplomat Lakshmi Puri. Mr. Gokhale had in a series of tweets questioned how Ms. Puri could have bought a house for 1.6 million Swiss Franc in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2006 with her then income. Justice C. Hari Shankar further restrained Mr. Gokhale from “posting any defamatory or scandalous or factually incorrect” tweets on his Twitter account against Ms. Puri and her husband.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.