Ahmedabad: A local court today deferred till December 16 its order on admitting a criminal defamation suit filed by suspended Gujarat IAS officer Pradeep Sharma against columnist-activist Madhu Kishwar in connection with the snooping scandal.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate H G Pandya today deferred its order till December 16 on the matter.
On December 5, the court had heard arguments by Sharma's counsel regarding the jurisdiction of the matter and reserved its order for today. However, the order was deferred till December 16.
Meanwhile, the court today asked Sharma's counsel to submit pen drives containing clippings of the television debates and Kishwar's Twitter account.
In her tweets and during debates, Kishwar had alleged the senior bureaucrat was harassing the woman due to which her father asked for police protection.
The suit filed late last month has sought initiation of criminal proceedings against Kishwar.
