GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 6:
1. Words, denigrating the Respondent and maligning his character were allegedly employed by the Petitioner, when he was the Finance Minister of the concerned State, in his address to the Press, post his participation in the GST Council meeting, held on 19- 12-2019. The Respondent was aggrieved by the slanderous statement, which thereby gave rise to a Complaint under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter, the "Cr.P.C."), in the Court of the Learned Judicial Magistrate, East Sikkim, at Gangtok. The Trial Court, vide the impugned Order dated 02-03-2021, in Private Complaint Case No.09 of 2020 (Santiago Martin vs. Dr. T. M. Th...