In a strongly worded order, the Delhi High Court had lambasted New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) for wasting the Court’s time for almost seven years. The Court, while dismissing the Rs25 crore defamation suit filed by NDTV against MJ Akbar, also came down heavily on counsels of both parties for repeated adjournments.

In an recent order, Justice Rajiv Sahai says, “The plaintiff (NDTV) in the present case appears to have woken up from its slumber insofar as the present suit is concerned, only on realising that the game of ‘tarikh pe tarikh‘, which it had been playing, was about to come to an end. Need was then felt to file the Chamber Appeal along with application for condonation of delay so that the game can continue.”