The Delhi High Court today imposed another Rs 5,000 as cost on Arvind Kejriwal over delay in filing his reply to a fresh Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley over use of an objectionable word allegedly by the CM's former lawyer.

Joint Registrar Pankaj Gupta directed Kejriwal, who was earlier slapped with Rs 10,000 as cost, to deposit Rs 5,000 in the 'Army Welfare Fund Battle Casualties'.

The cost was imposed after Jaitley's counsel Manik Dogra informed the court that the chief minister's written statement to the suit was filed beyond the time of two weeks granted by this court on July 26.

The counsel further submitted that these were delayed tactics on the part of the chief minister.