New Delhi, April 25 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday directed a portion of Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Saket Gokhale's salary to be attached after he failed to comply with the court's direction to pay Rs.50 lakh as damages to Union minister Hardeep Puri's wife Lakshmi Puri.
The court's direction was passed in a defamation suit filed by Lakshmi Puri, a former diplomat who served as Indian Assistant Secretary-General to the United Nations, taking offence of a series of posts against her by Gokhale in 2021. The posts raised questions in the context of an apartment owned by her and had also sought an inquiry by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the assets involving the Puri couple.
On July 1 last year, the court had asked Gokhale...