Published on : 08 Oct 2025, 1:37 pm 2 min read

A Delhi court on Wednesday rejected a plea by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to bar Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Advocate Somnath Bharti from representing his wife, Lipika Mitra, in the defamation case filed against her by Mitra.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Paras Dalal of the Rouse Avenue Court said that in the eyes of law, husband and wife are two separate individuals having different proprietary and pecuniary interests.

Although one may argue that both are interested in each other’s rights and interests, the same cannot be questioned to be unethical and immoral, the Court said.

“This Court finds no bar to spouse prosecuting for or defending his/ her spouse. There is no bar to even claim for maximu

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