NEW DELHI: Delhi excessive court docket Thursday suggested former diplomat Lakshmi Puri and TMC MP Saket Gokhale to settle the dispute over defamatory tweets in opposition to Puri, declaring that “courts are overflooded.”A bench of justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar proposed a gathering to settle the matter after noting that Gokhale had tendered an apology in response to Puri’s defamation go well with. “You are in public life, revered public figures. Each events can sit collectively and attempt to resolve the dispute. Please take into accounts that courts are already overflooded and burdened,” the court docket instructed each events.Senior advocate Maninder Singh, representing Puri, and senior advocate Amit Sibal, showing for Gokhale, assured the bench they’d discuss to their shoppers and contemplate the court docket’s proposal of settlement. The dispute stems from defamatory tweets posted by Gokhale in June 2021, alleging improprieties in Puri’s buy of property overseas. She is a retired IFS officer.The bench was listening to Gokhale’s enchantment in opposition to a single decide’s order final yr restraining him from publishing additional on social media or any on-line platform in opposition to Puri. The only decide discovered Gokhale’s tweets defamatory and directed him to apologise to Puri and pay Rs 50 lakh in damages.