New Delhi, March 18 -- Delhi's Saket court on Tuesday rejected the plea moved by social activist Medha Patkar seeking permission to examine Nandita Narrain as an additional witness in a defamation case against LG V K Saxena.

Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Raghav Sharma on Tuesday rejected the plea making certain observations.

While rejecting the plea, the court said, "Allowing such applications without proper justification would set a dangerous precedence.

"If parties are permitted to introduce new businesses arbitrarily and at such a late stage, trial courts would become never-ending, as litigants could continuously bring for new witnesses whenever it suits them, thereby prolonging proceedings indefinitely," the court said in ...