India, Nov. 5 -- The Delhi High Court (HC) on Tuesday set aside the summons issued to TV journalist Arnab Goswami in a criminal defamation complaint filed by an advocate for allegedly making defamatory remarks on a news channel in 2016. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna also quashed the criminal complaint against Goswami and two former officials of the TV channel - Shrijeet Ramakant Mishra and Samir Jain.

The court passed the order on three separate petitions challenging the trial court's order summoning them in the defamation complaint in which advocate Vikram Singh Chauhan had claimed that he was deliberately and willfully defamed by Goswami and others on a TV channel. The alleged remarks were made during the broadcast of a programme relati...