Today, Gujarat Court issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party’s Upper house member Sanjay Singh. The Court directed them to appear before it on June 7 in a criminal defamation case filed by the Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree.

The bench of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SJ Panchal summoned Kejriwal and Singh after the court was informed that the summons issued earlier directing the duo to appear on May 23 does not appear to have been received by them as none of them was present in the court.

Earlier, the court issued summons to the AAP leaders in a criminal defamation complaint for their “sarcastic” and “derogatory” statements against the Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree.

Yesterday, Pranav Thakkar head of AAP’s legal cell for Gujarat, submitted before the Court that AAP Minister Kejriwal and Singh have not yet received the summons issued to them by the court.

Advocate Amit Nair, counsel for Gujarat universities mentioned the matter before the bench of Justice SJ Panchal,

During the hearing, Nair said that his predecessor issued the processes on April 15 against the accused persons to remain present on May 23. Since nobody was present on the given date, it is not clear whether the summons was served on them or not.

The judge asked the staff to check and then directed them to issue a summons to Kejriwal and Singh.

The previous additional chief metropolitan magistrate-Jayesh Chovatiya- issued a summons on April 15 after finding that prima facie there appeared to be a case against Kejriwal and Singh under section 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a complaint filed by Gujarat University registrar Piyush Patel.