The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to summon the minutes of meetings of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) between 1999 and 2014 in a defamation suit filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley. The court said that the judiciary cannot be allowed to be used as a “roving and fishing enquiry” while dismissing the chief minister’s plea.

Kejriwal, along with five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, are facing a Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by BJP leader Jaitley. Besides Kejriwal, the five others named in the case are Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai.

The AAP leaders had accused the BJP leader of corruption while he was the president of DDCA from 2000 to 2013.

Joint registrar Pankaj Gupta said it was not Kejriwal’s defence that he made the alleged defamatory statements based on the records he wanted to summon and hence cannot be allowed to lead evidence beyond what he had pleaded in his application.