Chandigarh, Sept. 10 -- A Chandigarh court has restrained Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and former judge justice Ranjit Singh from publishing, circulating or making any unverified defamatory content against Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann's wife Gurpreet Kaur over allegations of demand of Rs.5 crore as bribe to help a rape accused.

Civil judge (junior division) Prikshit passed the ex-parte order on an application filed by Kaur demanding that all these persons be asked not to issue "the defamatory, false, unverified and unauthenticated statements on their social media accounts" and to take down the statements made on social media, which she said had been "concocted to tarnish the i...