Delhi court summons Jairam Ramesh in Vivek Doval defamation case

New Delhi, March 2: A Delhi court on Saturday summoned Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and The Caravan Magazine as accused in a defamation case filed by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval son Vivek Doval against them.

They have been called to appear before the court on April 25 after Vivek Doval sought action against The Caravan magazine, among others, over an article.

Besides the magazine and the Congress leader, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal also summoned the article writer, Kaushal Shroff.

All three are summoned for April 25, the judge said. Vivek Doval had sought prosecution of Ramesh for using the articles content to address a press conference without verifying the facts. However, The Caravans political editor Hartosh Singh Bal had said, We have gone by facts and we have documents

The article has alleged that the fund headed by Vivek Doval, based in the Cayman Islands, was involved in the laundering of black money and routing it to India after demonetization was implemented in 2016. Ajit Doval sons run a web of companies including a Cayman Islands hedge fund even as father demands crackdown on tax havens, The Caravans January 16 article, The D Companies, stated.