new delhi lieutenant governor vk saxena on thursday urged the delhi high court to restrain aam aadmi party aap and some of its leaders from levelling false allegations against him and his family after they claimed that he was involved in a rs 1400 crore scam during his tenure as the khadi and village industries commission kvic chairmanjustice amit bansal who heard the matter for two hours reserved the order on the issue of granting interim relief to saxenathe hearing saw lawyers for the lg and aap lock horns during the hearing the judge stated that the lg is a constitutional functionary i can imagine a politician saying things against another politician but not against a constitutional functionary the court remarked however the counsel for aap responded that even constitutional authorities have some historythe lg has sought to injunct aap its leaders atishi singh saurabh bharadwaj durgesh pathak sanjay singh and jasmine shah who is the vicechairperson of dialogue and development commission to delete or take down the alleged false and libelous posts or tweets or videos circulated and issued on social media he has also sought damages and compensation of rs 25 crore along with interest from the political party and its five functionariessaxenas counsel also urged the high court to direct twitter and youtube google inc to take down or remove the tweets retweets posts videos captions taglines along with pictures of the plaintiff saxena and his family members on their respective platformsbut the counsel for aap and its leaders highlighted that one of the statements issued by them was that during saxenas tenure as kvic chairman his daughter was given a contract of khadi that was against the rules which is a fact and no one has denied it in response the lg stated that it is a matter of fact that his daughter had assisted in designing the khadi lounge but it was on a pro bono basis and not a single penny was taken by her for her servicessaxena has contended that aap and its leaders have built their entire vilification campaign on the purported allegations and statements of two accused persons of kvic who have been chargesheeted concerning the exchange of demonetised currency notes case he claimed that as per the cbi case the amount in question was rs 17 lakh but the defendants floated a fanciful sum of rs 1400 crore based on some obtuse mathematical calculations