Ahmedabad | The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed a sessions court here to transfer to another judge pleas of AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh challenging a trial court’s order to summon them in a criminal defamation case over their remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree.

The court of Justice Samir Dave directed the principal sessions judge of Ahmedabad to transfer the revision applications of the two leaders against the summons issued by the metropolitan court to another judge who will decide on the same within 10 days from the date of assignment of the matter.

He was told that the in-charge judge hearing the matter was on leave and had kept it for September 16, even when the case was to be heard in the metropolitan court on August 31.