India, Sept. 29 -- A Goa court on Monday restrained Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh from making statements against Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant's wife, Sulakshana Sawant, during the pendency of a civil defamation suit filed over the Delhi MP's corruption allegations targeting her.

"The defendant himself or through his associates, representatives, supporters, agents or any other person acting through him are restrained from making public statements maligning the image of the plaintiff similar to the nature of the statements made in the present case and pertaining to the subject matter of the present case till the suit is decided on merits," ad-hoc civil judge senior division Anuradha Andrade said in her interim ord...