India, Aug. 29 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the trial court to defer the hearing on the charges against Delhi law minister Kapil Mishra over his alleged inflammatory remarks ahead of the 2020 assembly polls.

The direction was issued by a bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja on Thursday, after senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, appearing for Mishra, informed the court that the Delhi Police, in its supplementary chargesheet, had included files received from platform X containing information about Mishra's account, but the files were in a coded, incomprehensible format.

Jethmalani urged the court to stay the trial court proceedings, contending that the matter was listed before the trial court for arguments on the charge on Friday, a...