New Delhi: A 20-year-old activist and UPSC aspirant has filed a defamation case before the Delhi high court against journalist Sudhir Chaudhary over his July 27 broadcast of his daily prime time show ‘Decode’ on DD News, in which he allegedly made misleading statements wrongly attributing them to the petitioner.Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice on the interim injunction plea filed by Vijay Sherawat, LiveLaw reported, over false identification and defamation of the plaintiff. The judge has sought response from Chaudhary and DD News.The suit seeks an injunction to restrain the defendants from telecasting, hosting, publishing, circulating or disseminating the July 27 telecast. The suit also seeks Rs 5 crore in damages.The stated telecast allegedly suggests that during the Cockroach Janta Party-led protest in Delhi, Sherawat made statements to the effect of destroying the parliament and threatening to turn India into Nepal. In the July 27 episode of ‘Decode’, Chaudhary had displayed Sherawat’s image and identified him as the person who raised slogans like “Sansad bhawan ukhad diya jayega… Nepal bana diya jayega.”However, in his plea, Sherawat claimed that he never made such statements and that the wrong statements were being attributed to him, without any scant regard of the facts.“It was a mala fide act, meant to discredit a critic of the government, to paint a peaceful protest as anti-national, and to expose the plaintiff to public hatred and to danger,” the plea read.The student activist stated in his suit that he had also posted a clarification on his Instagram account, but his reach of about 4,224 followers could not match that of a DD News, which claims 1.4 billion digital views, according to Bar and Bench.The high court issued notice on the interim application seeking take down of the broadcast and listed the matter for hearing on September 22.“It is expected that on the next date of hearing, Defendants 1, 2 and 3 [Chaudhary, Essar and DD] would be ready for advancing arguments on the interim stay,” the high court said in its order.