NEW DELHI: The Supreme Courtroom on Friday informed actor-turned-BJP MP Kangana Ranaut that her put up “was not a easy retweet” and that she had “added spice” to the present content material. Ranaut withdrew her plea searching for to quash a felony defamation criticism filed in opposition to her over retweets linked to 2020-21 protests in opposition to the Centre’s now-repealed farm legal guidelines.Ranaut’s counsel selected to withdraw the petition after a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta expressed its reluctance to entertain the matter. Counsel additionally informed the bench that the actor had retweeted a tweet.The Supreme Courtroom urged that Ranaut discover various treatments earlier than the trial court docket as a substitute.The criticism stems from remarks Kangana made in 2020-21, throughout the farmers’ protests. In one in every of her tweets, she had commented a couple of lady protester, claiming she was the identical “dadi” who had earlier participated within the Shaheen Bagh demonstrations.Complainant Mahinder Kaur, a resident of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Punjab’s Bathinda district, filed the defamation case in January 2021 at a Bathinda court docket. She alleged that Kangana’s remarks have been false and defamatory, meant to malign her popularity.Ranaut had earlier approached the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom searching for to quash the criticism, however her plea was rejected. Her counsel argued that the Bathinda court docket’s summoning order was not legally sustainable and violated provisions of the Felony Process Code.With the Supreme Courtroom now directing Kangana to hunt reduction earlier than the trial court docket, the defamation case will proceed to proceed on the decrease court docket degree.