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HC: Malik won't tweet or make statements against Wankhedes until December 9

Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik advised the Bombay High Court on Thursday that he'll no longer submit any tweets or make any public statements in opposition to NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede, his father or any in their own family members till December nine, the subsequent date of listening to.


The guarantee got here after the high court asked the minister whether he has lodged a complaint with the caste scrutiny committee concerning his allegations towards Sameer Wankhede's caste credentials, and said if he has no longer finished so what changed into his goal behind the "media exposure", which it stated does not befit a minister.



The announcement on Malik's behalf changed into made through his recommend Karl Tamboly earlier than a bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav after it stated that it turned into inclined to pass an order restraining the minister from making public feedback against the Wankhedes until in addition hearing.


The bench stated that it turned into apparent that Malik's tweets had stemmed out of malice.


"Why is the minister behaving like this? Why ought to he behave like this we want to understand? This is nothing but malice. Please examine the dictionary which means of malice," the HC said.


The bench changed into hearing an attraction filed by Dnyandev Wankhede, father of Sameer Wankhede, tough the order of a unmarried bench of the excessive court docket that had refused on November 22, to restrain Malik from making defamatory statements in opposition to him and his family.


Senior counsel Birendra Saraf, who seemed on behalf of Dnyandev before the bench led through Justice Kathawalla, submitted that the unmarried bench had recorded in its order that Malik had made allegations against Sameer Wankhede bearing on his religion, and his having obtained illegal gratification while on obligation, with out due verification.


"The findings of the single bench are that the tweets (through Malik) had actuated out of malice and animosity and yet, no alleviation become granted to me (Dnyandev)," Saraf said.


"The single choose says that he (Malik) omitted the fact, and that the files he submitted in court had been either interpolated or now not verified," he stated.


Saraf further stated that the minister had made remarks no longer just towards Dnyandev and Sameer Wankhede, however towards their other own family members too.


"He (Malik) has spared no person...My daughter, my dead wife. This morning, too, he has tweeted," Saraf said referring to a tweet made via the minister on Thursday morning, wherein he published an photo of a record that he referred to as pertained to the last rites of Dnyandev's wife and confirmed her faith as Muslim.


Saraf further stated that Malik had submitted documents in courtroom casual with out verification.


Tamboly, however, said that the NCP leader had submitted demonstrated files before the unmarried bench on affidavit to prove numerous allegations made towards the Wankhedes, inclusive of the declare that Sameer Wankhede, though born a Muslim had falsely claimed in his caste certificates to belong to a chosen Scheduled Caste (SC) category to secure his valuable authorities task.


At this, the bench asked if Malik had made any formal criticism before the caste scrutiny committee.


When Tamboly stated no such criticism had been made but, the bench requested why Malik was then making such public statements?


"Any criticism made to the caste scrutiny committee? If no then what is he trying to show? Is this for media publicity? For claims of caste falsities, everybody has a redressal discussion board (the caste scrutiny committee)," the high court said.


"If there may be a caste certificates in his (Malik's) favor, then in place of all this media exposure that he wants ordinary, specifically after his son-in-law changed into arrested by means of wankhede, why now not technique the committee?...He is a minister...Does it befit him to do all this?" the bench requested.


The court docket in addition stated that if it become apparent that Malik's tweets had actuated out of malice, and the same were recorded as a specific locating of the single bench, then what have to logically observe changed into that the minister be restricted from making further feedback till Dnyandev Wankhede's appeal was heard in the end by way of the court docket.


Tamboly then sought time to take instructions.


He said that Malik's daughter-in-regulation turned into present in court docket and they has decided that "as opposed to moving into an issue, I (Malik) will not tweet or say something until the very last hearing".


The excessive court popular Tamboly's announcement, however asked why turned into the minister's daughter-in-regulation gift inside the court docket room while she changed into not a celebration to the case.


"Is the minister's entire own family worried in this? Why is she here?" the HC asked.


It, but, took on file Tamboly's assertion that "no tweets and public statements shall be made towards the plaintiff (Dnyandev Wankhede) and his circle of relatives participants via any means of exposure, whether at once or in a roundabout way" till December nine, the next date of listening to.

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