MP excessive courtroom lifts keep on arrest warrant towards Abhishek Banerjee
The Madhya Pradesh excessive courtroom’s Jabalpur bench lifted the interim keep on the arrest warrant issued towards Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee after he repeatedly failed to look in courtroom in reference to a defamation case filed by former MLA Akash Vijayvargiya.
The only bench of justice Pramod Kumar Agrawal on Wednesday mentioned, “Nobody appeared for the petitioner even within the move over spherical. Nobody has appeared on behalf of petitioner within the first spherical additionally. Evidently petitioner has misplaced curiosity in pursuing this petition. This Courtroom by order on November 12, 2025 has stayed the proceedings for execution of arrest warrant issued by particular choose, MP/MLA, Bhopal. Accordingly, the keep granted in favour of the petitioner can also be vacated.”
At a rally in Kolkata, Banerjee allegedly referred to Akash Vijayvargiya as a ‘goonda’ (thug) in November 2020, months after Vijayvargiya allegedly hit a municipal company worker with a cricket bat.
Terming the comment defamatory and damaging to his popularity, Akash filed a criticism within the Bhopal MP-MLA courtroom in 2021.
The Bhopal MP-MLA courtroom had issued an arrest warrant towards Abhishek Banerjee following his failure to look earlier than the courtroom. He had challenged the decrease courtroom’s order concerning the warrant within the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom. Within the Excessive Courtroom, he argued that, as an elected Member of Parliament, there was no threat of him absconding. Primarily based on these arguments, the Excessive Courtroom had initially granted an interim keep on the arrest warrant.
