Kangana Claims CMM Is Biased, Seeks Transfer Of Javed Akhtar Defamation Case

On Dec 18, 2021

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Kangana Ranaut has been vocal about every issue that arises in Bollywood or otherwise. Whether it is nepotism or a drug probe, she doesn’t hold back from not only expressing her views but also dragging the names of her colleagues from the film fraternity.

While some stayed silent, others hit back on the same medium (social media) and cleared the air. However, some even sued her for false allegations and defamation. Case in point, popular Bollywood lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar.

Akhtar had filed a complaint under various sections of IPC against Ranaut stating that she had linked him in the Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case. He also mentioned that she had made defamatory comments against him on national television.

The case is under Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM). However, Kangana has now approached the sessions court to transfer the case claiming that the magistrate is biased and had “misused his powers to cause intentional injury” to her.

The plea states, “With a biased mind, the Magistrate was intentionally causing prejudice to Ranaut’s rights and liberties, inter alia by threatening to issue an arrest warrant against Ranaut to secure her presence before him for a ‘bailable’ and ‘non-congnizable’ offence.”

She further adds that the CMM’s order is “grossly erroneous as it has failed to consider that the magistrate has exercised his discretion arbitrarily and without the application of a trained judicial mind, which has resulted in the failure of justice.”

And, that the Andheri Magistrate “has intentionally and willfully caused injury to the mind of Ranaut, which further harmed her image and reputation by callously announcing in an open court on two different occasions, namely on July 27, 2021 and September 14, 2021, before the media personnel, that “if the applicant is not present for hearing on the next date, an arrest warrant will be issued against her.”

The court however maintains that she was absent on six hearings and the magistrate RR Khan allowed exemption on two occasions, rejecting Akhtar’s plea to issue a non-bailable warrant against her for not appearing in the court.

Kangana made a similar appeal in October which was rejected by in-charge CMM ST Dande stating, “If on the basis of false allegation, the matter is transferred, it will affect the morale of the Presiding Officer.”