BATHINDA, Dec. 5 -- A septuagenarian woman, Mahinder Kaur, recorded her statement and submitted documentary evidence before a special court in Bathinda in a defamation case against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian from Mandi and actor Kangana Ranaut on Thursday.

Judicial magistrate 1st class (JMIC) Inderjeet Singh recorded the proceedings in camera in his special court designated to handle cases against MPs and MLAs.

A defamation case was filed by Kaur in 2021, alleging that Kangana defamed her in a post on the social media platform X by wrongly identifying her as a Shaheen Bagh protester, Bilkis Bano, and suggesting that such women could be hired to protest for Rs.100.

Kangana did not appear virtually on Thursday and h...