CJP agrees to take down posts against BJP's Gaurav Bhatia after Delhi HC's appeal: 'Attacking without verifying'

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenors Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka on Thursday agreed to take down posts against BJP leader and senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia after the Delhi High Court suggested them to do so.The counsel for Saruav Das submitted that the tweet in question had already been deleted. (PTI)The outfit undertook before the court that the posts will be taken down within 24 hours. While the high court didn't pass a takedown order in this regard, it appealed to the CJP to voluntarily remove the posts.“There are different ways of protesting. You are all youngsters. You may have anxieties. But attacking like this without verifying is not correct,” the court said, according to LiveLaw.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela made the observations while hearing Bhatia’s ₹2-crore defamation suit against Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, Abhijeet Dipke and others.Bhatia appeared in person. According to news agency ANI, the counsel for Saruav Das submitted that the tweet in question had already been deleted.The Court also asked counsel appearing for the other defendants to take instructions on whether they were willing to remove the disputed posts voluntarily.The case comes after a war of words erupted between Das and Bhatia. Das shared a post claiming the BJP spokesperson had called right-wing ‘influencer’ Swatantra Bhardwaj a “dimagi naxal”, following which, Bhatia said on Saturday that it was “fake” and asked Das to remove the post within 24 hours and offer an unconditional apology.While Das later deleted the post and admitted that it was generated using artificial intelligence, he refused to apologise.“Nonetheless, I challenge any leader in the BJP to repeat this line,” Das said.After Das took down the photo, Bhatia warned that it he does not apologise, he will file an FIR.“It took only 83 minutes for the post to be deleted. Unqualified apology still remains. Tomorrow will be a day of FIR if no unqualified apology is tendered. Can't spread propaganda and then just delete and run,” Bhatia wrote.