India, April 24 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered the attachment of a portion of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saket Gokhale's salary after he failed to comply with the court's direction to pay Rs.50 lakh in damages to Union minister Hardeep Puri's wife Lakshmi Puri in a defamation case.

The court passed the order in connection with the suit filed by Lakshmi Puri, a former diplomat who served as India's assistant secretary-general to the United Nations, after taking offence to a series of posts Gokhale put out against her on X in 2021.

A bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora opined that the parliamentarian had failed to give a "reasonable explanation" for non-compliance.

"Respondent (Gokhale) has not given any reasonable explanatio...