Actress and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kangana Ranaut on Friday withdrew her petition from the Supreme Court, in which she demanded the cancellation of a criminal defamation complaint against her for a retweet of 2020-21 farmers against agricultural laws of the Center.The case came to hear before the bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta. After the bench showed reluctance to considering the petition, Kangana’s lawyer withdrew it.
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Kangana, who came into politics from acting, challenged the defamation complaint, which was now based on her retweet that now included her own remarks about a female protestor during the 2020-21 farmer protests against the canceled agricultural laws. Complainant Mahinder Kaur (73), who hails from Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Bathinda district of Punjab, lodged a complaint in Bathinda in January 2021.
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Her complaint in a Bathinda court claimed that the actress made ‘false allegations and comments’ in a retweet that she was the same ‘grandmother’ who was involved in the protests in Shaheen Bagh. Kangana’s counsel had argued in the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the Bathinda court’s summons order is not eligible due to a violation of the Criminal Procedure Code.