Journalist Sudhir Chaudhary told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that he has removed his social media posts “misidentifying” a student activist who allegedly made statements to the effect of destroying the Parliament and threatening to turn India into Nepal, during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in June.

The statement was made by Senior Advocate Dayan Krishnan appearing for the journalist before Justice Tushar Rao Gedela.

The Court was hearing a defamation suit filed by the student activist- Vijay Sherawat, a 20 year old activist and UPSC aspirant, over a broadcast published on July 27 on Chaudhary's daily prime time show “Decode” on DD News.

The suit seeks an injunction to restrain the defendants from telecasting, hosting, publishing, circulating or disseminating the telecast hosted on July 27, alleging the same to be defamatory.

As per Sherawat, the impugned telecast gives an imputation that during the CJP protest, he made statements to the effect of destroying the Parliament and threatening to turn India into Nepal.

It is his case that he never made such statements and that wrong statement is being attributed to him by the defendants, without any scant regard of the correct facts.

During the hearing today, Krishnan informed the Court that Chaudhary has deleted the posts on his own.

He also said that as the posts have been taken down, the matter can be closed as nothing remained in the case.

However, Sherawat's lawyer contended that he wanted to go ahead with the matter.

Accordingly, Justice Gedela said that the matter will be heard now in January 2027.

Title: VIJAY SHERAWAT v. SUDHIR CHAUDHARY AND ORS