New Delhi, April 23 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to Himayani Puri, daughter of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, on an application seeking vacation of the interim injunction granted in her defamation suit concerning articles linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. The matter is now listed for hearing on May 7.

Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, along with Advocate Mayank Jain, appeared for defendant Kunal Shukla, an RTI activist from Chhattisgarh, and argued that the injunction order violated provisions of the Civil Procedure Code (CPC).

They submitted that the requirement under Order XXXIX Rule 3 mandating prior notice to the opposite party before granting an injunction had not been followed, relying on a Supreme Court judgment...