India, May 27 -- New Delhi

The Delhi high court on Monday issued a summons to Delhi-based defence analyst Abhijit Iyer Mitra in a defamation suit filed by nine women employees of digital news platform Newslaundry for his allegedly sexually abusive social media posts.

The suit stems from a series of tweets posted by Mitra from February to April in which he allegedly made derogatory posts about the digital platform's women employees, their workplace and subscribers.

A bench of justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav passed the direction after the women employees, including company managing editor Manisha Pande, submitted that Mitra has not shown remorse even after taking down his tweets. They have even sought damages against Mitra. The women e...