In his original complaint dated 16/03/2017, Bagga stated that he was neither involved in the beating up of advocate Prashant Bhushan nor was he ever arrested in any case pertaining to sexual harassment.
Congress scion Rahul Gandhi was granted exemption from appearing in person during the hearing in the 2014 'RSS killed Mahatama Gandhi' defamation case filed against him as he was 'busy'
The move by Sampath against Audrey Truschke, Rohit Chopra and others came a day after the professors wrote a letter falsely accusing him of plagiarism.