Bathinda, Dec. 16 -- A special court in Bathinda on Monday deferred the hearing in the defamation complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian from Mandi and actor Kangana Ranaut to January 5.

Judicial magistrate first class Inderjeet Singh adjourned the case after the complainant, Mahinder Kaur, a septuagenarian woman from Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Bathinda, failed to appear before the court.

Kaur's counsel RS Behniwal told reporters that the complainant was indisposed.

He stated that at the next hearing, two additional prosecution witnesses would be presented before the court against the accused.

Meanwhile, Kangana's counsel GS Dandiwal said the BJP MP had moved an application for exemption from a personal hea...