Appearing for Kejriwal, Leading Lawyer and Ex BJP Law Minister Jethmalani during the cross-examination, Jethmalani tried to corner Jaitley on why he felt his reputation had been damaged in a manner that was "irreparable and unquantifiable”.

Jethmalani also demanded from the senior minister if he made any serious effort to reverse the alleged damage before coming to the court, since as per Jaitley's statement, the damage continued for five consecutive days. To this, Jaitley replied angrily "I contradicted the allegations in the media and also in Parliament where echoes of these allegations were raised."

The two notable famous lawyers covered several issues in the question-answer-style cross-examination — from the CBI raid on Delhi government's senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar in December 2015 to another official Chetan Sanghi's report on DDCA affairs.

On the amount of Rs10 crore demanded as damages by Jaitley, Kejriwal's counsel Ram Jethmalani pointed out that the minister didn't seem to have suffered any monetary damage. "What is the meaning of the term 'unquantifiable damage' used by you in the plaint?" the veteran lawyer asked, adding, "in other words, you are telling that you cannot assign any objective rational reason, but it depends on where you place yourself? What do you have to say?”.

The minister responded in vague with out attributing Quantitative figures . Jaitley, facing a barrage of questions from his former BJP colleague, gasped for words and also referred to the CBI raid to highlight that immediately after it, AAP functionaries began issuing defamatory statements "to deflect attention from this raid and to link me somehow to a controversy with which I had no connection".

Jethmalani, on his part, asked the minister if he knew that the CBI search was in the expectation that some DDCA documents may be found. But visibly upset Jaitley refuted the claim, making it clear he had no prior knowledge of the raid, nor had he even been privy to the facts of the raid. Jaitley also denied accusations that he tried to influence Chetan Sanghi, Delhi government's vigilance chief who handled the DDCA case, and tried to lean upon him to go back on his report.

However regarding the reputation of Finance Minister Jethmalani did not bring up the question in what capacity Jaitley as a Finance Minister meet unofficially then Convicted Criminal J.Jayalalitha on 18-01-2015 at her Poes Garden home in the early morning hours.

At one stage, Jethmalani brought out a dictionary and asked Jaitley the difference between "goodwill" and "reputation", but the query was shot down by the court.

Law Experts said during subsequent trail defence counsel may pop up that during Tamilnadu Assembly election raid in 2016 huge cash catch of 570 cr in three containers and Jaitley FM has said the entire cash belongs to SBI after 48 hours but madras court refused to a accept Finance officials and ordered CBI probe and also Delhi Cricket Council scams against Jaitley as alleged by BJP Law maker Kirthi Azad from Bihar.

In total Jethmalani fired a salvo of 52 questions at Jaitley in the nearly daylong proceedings in a jam-packed court, but 11 of these were "disallowed" by joint registrar Amit Kumar for either being a "matter of record and irrelevant to the case", or for being "questions of law and not fact" that could be argued later.