A Delhi court on Tuesday refused to transfer to another judge the appeals filed by journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and news outlet Newslaundry against an order restraining them from publishing allegedly defamatory material about industrialist Gautam Adani’s Adani Enterprises, Live Law reported.

Principal District and Sessions Judge Gurvinder Pal Singh said that the matter cannot be transferred to the judge who had set aside the restraining order in challenges filed by four other journalists on Thursday, as the arguments in Thakurta’s appeal had been made before district judge Sunil Chaudhary.

Chaudhary had said on Monday that it would be appropriate for the matter to be heard by Judge Ashish Aggarwal, who had already dealt with the case and passed orders, Bar and Bench re

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