SC to hear plea against ex-IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi for remarks against ex-AG

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea which alleged that exIPL Commissioner Lalit Modi made some scurrilous remarks in his social media post against former Attorney General and senior advocate Mukul RohatgiA bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal that Modi has made scurrilous allegations against Rohatgi without any basisAlso read PM Modis Mumbai visit Police ask offices near venue of PMs event to allow employees to leave earlyGive us the paper book We will keep the IA interim application on board before an appropriate bench next Friday the bench saidThe exIPL commissioner in his Instagram post had made some comments about Rohatgi Later though another post he reportedly apologised to the senior advocateEarlier the top court on August 1 last year had appointed former apex court judge Justice R V Raveendran as a mediator to settle the family property dispute involving the former IPL head and his mother Bina ModiSenior advocate Rohatgi is one of the counsels representing Bina Modi in the vexatious property disputePrior to this Lalit Modi and his mother had told the bench that the apex courtmandated mediation to resolve a long pending property dispute in the family had failedThe top court is seized of Lalit Modis appeal against the judgement of a division bench of the Delhi High Court that antiarbitration injunction lawsuit filed by Bina Modi wife of late industrialist K K Modi against her son is maintainableA lawsuit was earlier filed by Bina Modi in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain the arbitration proceedings initiated by Lalit Modi in Singapore over the disputeIn December 2020 the division bench of the high court held that it has the jurisdiction to decide Bina Modis plea challenging Lalit Modis move to initiate arbitration proceedings in SingaporeThe division bench had set aside the judgement of a single judge of the high court which had said it does not have the jurisdiction to adjudicate the antiarbitration injunction suits filed by Lalit Modis mother Bina his sister Charu and brother Samir and they are open to taking such pleas before the arbitral tribunal in SingaporeThe single judge had said an antiarbitration injunction suit does not lie so the pleas are not maintainable and dismissed the matterBina Charu and Samir in two separate suits contended that there was a trust deed between the family members and the K K Modi family trust matters cannot be settled through arbitration in a foreign country according to Indian lawsThey have sought a permanent injunction restraining Lalit Modi from prosecuting or continuing with the application for emergency measures and any arbitration proceedings against them in SingaporeThe division bench in its judgement passed on December 24 2020 had said the subject dispute ought to have been prime facie adjudicated by a single judge who had to exercise the jurisdiction vested in the court as all the parties are Indian citizens and situs of immovable assets of the trust is in IndiaThe division bench had remanded two civil suits to the single judge for further proceedings in accordance with the law from the stage of issuance of summons and directed the registry to list them for hearingAccording to the case the trust deed was executed in London by K K Modi as settlormanaging trustee and Bina Lalit Charu and Samir as trustees and in pursuance of an oral family the settlement was recorded between them on February 10 2006K K Modi died on November 2 2019 after which the dispute emerged amongst the trusteesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever