NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tendered an apology on Saturday to Vivek Doval, son of national security adviser Ajit Doval, before a Delhi court in connection with a criminal defamation case. The criminal defamation complaint had been filed by Vivek against a magazine and the Congress veteran for allegedly defaming him through an article followed by a press conference based on it.
In his statement, Ramesh said his remarks were based on a news article and conceded that “some independent verification of the facts may have been in order”.
Following the apology, additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sachin Gupta closed the case against the Congress leader after Doval accepted the same.