India, May 2 -- The Delhi high court on Friday refused to recall its order directing Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saket Gokhale to apologise and pay Rs.50 lakh in damages to Union minister Hardeep Puri's wife Lakshmi Puri in a defamation case.

A bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav also rejected Gokhale's application seeking to condone the delay in filing the application.

"We have to reject both the applications," Justice Kaurav said while pronouncing the verdict.

The order was passed in July last year 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 social media plat...