Panaji: The Bombay High Court has given three weeks time to activist Swapnesh Sherlekar to file his reply in the defamation suit filed against him by House of Abhinandan Lodha Private Limited.The HC has asked Sherlekar to justify his statements, which the company has termed as defamatory. The court has restrained Sherlekar from disseminating the statements which are part of the documents given to the court till the next hearing.In its defamation suit, the company said that such loose and defamatory statements are causing serious damage to its reputation and such statements are widely reported and circulated among the public at large. The company has sought interim relief to stop Sherlekar from making such statements.Sherlekar’s counsel said there is no urgency in the matter as these statements were made in 2024 and it is also part of a PIL, which is pending before the Goa bench of this court.He said he was only justifying these statements because they were based on solid material that supported them.