the respondents asking as to why the order of stay should not be continued till the decision of the revision plea filed by chavan and others navdikar who stays on the third floor of a building where chavan stays on the ground floor owns six cats he has alleged that chavan found the cats to be a nuisance and had complained to the police as well as the pune municipal corporation pmc about the petshe alleged that on july 10 2014 the accused attacked two of his male cats with wooden sticks and an iron rod leaving them maimed and crawling one of these male cats is now rendered physically disabled he claimed and accused chavan of using her political clout several times to get him harassed by the police and pmc officials even at night chavan has denied all these allegations and has said that she will be filing a rs5 crore defamation suit against navdikar for tarnishing her reputation we are waiting for the outcome of our revision plea and will file the defamation suit soon thereafter she told toi on saturday a first class judicial magistrate while responding to a private complaint filed by navdikar had issued process against chavan and her sisterinlaw bhargavi chavan on august 8 this year the magistrate then found that the material on record was substantial enough to issue summons against the accused and posted the matter for next hearing on october 4 chavan challenged the magistrates order before the sessions court and pleaded that pending the hearing of her revision plea the operation of the impugned under challenge order be stayed senior lawyer harshad nimbalkar who appeared for chavan cited a 2014 judgment by the bombay high court which held that if the question of correctness legality and propriety of the order issuing process is to be decided it would be proper to stay the further proceeding before the magistrate judge kale upheld the submission and observed it is necessary that the proceedings in the regular criminal case before the magistrate needs to be stayed till the appearance of respondents hence the operation and execution of the august 8 2016 order by the magistrate is hereby stayed till october 7