PTI, NEW DELHI: Refuting allegations that he was trying to influence the proceedings in the National Herald case with his tweets, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday told a Delhi court that he does not remember the social media posts cited by the Congress.
Swamy was responding to Congress leader Motilal Vora’s application seeking the court’s order to restrain him from tweeting about the case in which Vora is an accused along with his party chief Rahul Gandhi and mother Sonia Gandhi.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) told the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal that he was afraid that the tweets cited by Vora “may be tampered with”, but maintained that he had “every right to tweet”.
“I can’t remember the tweets. I made countless tweets and do not know whether those cited by the applicant (Vora) are mine,” Swamy said.
“The copies of tweets are not admissible under law and do not count as evidence to press on their application. If I do not know what are the evidence, how will I proceed further? I have every right to tweet. But the evidence you claim are not evidence since they are not certified,” he added.
He further argued that there was no evidence that his tweets were defamatory and therefore, Vora’s application should be “dismissed”.
