New Delhi, Mar 3: Popular singer Mika Singh, against whom a Rs 50 lakh defamation suit has been filed for allegedly slapping a doctor and tarnishing his image at a function here, was today granted time by a Delhi court to file a written statement in the matter. Additional District Judge Raj Rani, while granting time to Mika, also directed the plaintiff to supply more documents, including a CD, to his counsel within two weeks and fixed the matter for hearing on May 17. Amrik Singh alias Mika was earlier summoned in the defamation suit filed by Dr Srikanth, an ophthalmologist at Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital here, alleging that the singer had slapped him during a live concert, which was coordinated by the Delhi Ophthalmological Society as part of its three-day conference. Also read: Court asks doctor to give defamation suit documents to Mika Singh

In the suit filed through advocates Rajesh Kumar and Ahmad Shahrooz, the doctor had said on April 11, 2015, he was dancing at the venue when Mika, without any reason, started pointing fingers at him from the stage and asked him to move aside allegedly in a rude manner using abusive language. It was alleged that when the plaintiff did not pay heed to Mika’s “dictatorship and unparliamentary and abusive language” the singer got angry and directed his bouncers to drag the doctor to the stage.