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Writ petition against Rahul Bajaj dismissed
A writ petition seeking revoking of Padma Bhushan award to well-known industrialist Rahul Bajaj was dismissed by the High Court at Hyderabad recently. Justice C Praveen Kumar, while dismissing the petition observed that merely mentioning about receiving the award would not amount to publicity of the award being conferred and therefore cannot be a ground for revocation of the award.
Hyderabad: A writ petition seeking revoking of Padma Bhushan award to well-known industrialist Rahul Bajaj was dismissed by the High Court at Hyderabad recently. Justice C Praveen Kumar, while dismissing the petition observed that merely mentioning about receiving the award would not amount to publicity of the award being conferred and therefore cannot be a ground for revocation of the award.
Justice Praveeen Kumar passed this order in the writ petition filed by Nagothu Satyanarayana of Vijayawada who complained to the court that Rahul Bajaj had misused the award by publicising about his receiving the award.
Rahul Bajaj had moved the High Court seeking quashing of a defamation case filed by Satyanarayana in a Vijayawada court seeking damages for filing false cases against him and Satya Digitals firm being run by him. Those cases of cheating filed against Satyanarayana by Rahul Bajaj and Bajaj Auto Finance were dismissed by the lower court.
After that Satyanarayana filed a defamation case against Rahul Bajaj. Seeking quashing of the suit, Rahul Bajaj approached the High Court. In his petition, while stating about his role as Chairman of Bajaj Group, it was also mentioned that Rahul Bajaj received Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India in 2001.
This was cited by the petitioner Satyanarayana as a publicity of the award and therefore liable to be revoked. The judge disagreed with this contention and dismissed the writ petition.
