The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to summon the minutes of the Delhi and District Cricket Association’s meetings between 1999 and 2014 in connection with a defamation suit filed by Arun Jaitley, PTI reported.

Kejriwal and five other leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party are facing a Rs 10-crore defamation suit for their allegation that Jaitley had misused funds and his position while he was the DDCA president.

Jaitley had opposed Kejriwal’s petition, stating that the Delhi chief minister was trying to delay the proceedings by filing “frivolous pleas”.

Kejriwal is also facing a separate Rs 10-crore defamation suit filed by Jaitley, who claimed that the AAP leader’s former lawyer Ram Jethmalani used “scandalous words” while cross-examining the Bharatiya Janata Party leader. On September 4, the court had fined Kejriwal Rs 5,000 for delay in submitting a reply. On August 28, the court had dismissed Kejriwal’s plea against the decision of a single-judge bench to expedite hearing of the civil defamation suit.