Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to journalist Arnab Goswami and his news channel Republic TV to refrain from “misreporting” the case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death.

Tharoor alleged that despite assurance given in the court on May 29 by the counsel for Goswami and the news channel, they were engaged in “defaming and maligning” him.

During the hearing of Tharoor’s Rs 2 crore defamation suit against them for allegedly making defamatory remarks against him while airing news relating to the mysterious death of his wife, their counsel had on May 29 said that he will advise his client against it.

Justice Manmohan while hearing the lawsuit had said the journalist and his news channel can put out stories stating the facts related to the investigation of Pushkar’s death but cannot call the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram a “criminal”.