Punjabi Baba Who Sued Sikh-British Journalist Ordered To Pay £250,000

LONDON -  A Baba from India known as  Jeet Singh Maharaj, who heads Nirmal Kutia Johlan sect in Punjab, was on Tuesday ordered to pay £250,000 in court by way of security for costs.

Baba Jeet Singh had filed libel case against journalist Hardeep Singh for his article published in 2007 by Sikh Times, a local newspaper, for referring to the Baba as “an accused cult leader.”

The High Court in London threw out the case in May last year, ruling that the libel case involved an argument of religious doctrine rather than establishment of fact and could not be tried in English courts.

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