The Delhi High Court today declined to stay the trial court proceedings in a criminal defamation case filed by union minister Arun Jaitley against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders in the controversy surrounding Delhi cricket body DDCA.

The high court was hearing a plea by AAP leader Deepak Bajpai, who along with others was put on trial in the defamation case, challenging the lower court's orders summoning and framing notice against him.

Justice I S Mehta issued notice to the Delhi government and Jaitley and sought their response on the plea but declined the plea of Bajpai's counsel for an interim stay on the proceedings before the trial court.

The court listed the matter for September 19.

Besides the trial court orders of summoning and framing notice against Bajpai for the alleged offence of defamation, his advocate Prashant Mendiratta also challenged the order by which his application seeking to be heard on the point of notice was also rejected.