The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed AAP leader Raghav Chadha’s plea that he cannot be made to face a criminal case only for retweeting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s tweet against Union Minister Arun Jaitley in the DDCA row.

Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, however, did not go into the question whether the retweets by Chadha would constitute an offence of defamation, saying the issue would have to be decided during trial.

The court dismissed Chadha's plea, saying it was "devoid of merits".

The case came to the high court at the direction of the Supreme Court which had on September 15 asked it to decide by September 25, the AAP leader's plea against the trial court's summoning order.