However, due to paucity of time, the process and his cross examination by the defence lawyer remained incomplete.
Chief judicial magistrate R P Sonkar fixed December 17 as the next date of hearing.
Singh had filed a defamation suit against Bharti for allegedly levelling baseless charges that he had earned Rs 15,000 crore during his tenure as chief minister and also published the same in a BJP magazine.
The Congress leader said that because of these allegations, his image was badly damaged and claimed that the BJP levelled these charges against him to gain political mileage.