BATHINDA, July 3 -- A special court on Thursday recorded the cross-examination of veteran farmer leader Surjit Singh Phul, who appeared as a prosecution witness in a defamation complaint filed against Bharatiya Janata Party's Mandi MP and film actor Kangana Ranaut. Prosecution counsel RS Behniwal said Ranaut attended the proceedings virtually. In 2021, septuagenarian Mahinder Kaur, a resident of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Bathinda district, had filed a complaint alleging that Ranaut had defamed her in a post on the social media platform, X, by wrongly identifying her as Bilkis Bano, a protester associated with the Shaheen Bagh agitation, and suggesting that such women could be hired to take part in the protests for Rs.100. The next hearing in the case is on July 18....