New Delhi, April 17 -- Delhi's Rouse Avenue court on Thursday reserved order on the maintainability of the defamation complaint filed by former Delhi Minister and APP leader Satyender Jain, against a sitting BJP MLA, Karnail Singh.

The court has to decide the issue of jurisdiction to hear the complaint against Karnail Singh, who was not an MLA when the complaint was filed.

On March 3, the counsel for Karnail Singh had raised the issue of the maintainability of the complaint before the special MP/MLA court.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Paras Dalal, after hearing the submissions of advocates for the complainant and the proposed accused on the point of maintainability and jurisdiction, reserved the order till April 23.

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