New Delhi, Dec 12 (UNI) Congress spokesperson and Chairman of the party’s Media and Publicity department Pawan Khera has been served with a defamation notice of Rs 100 crore for a post on X released early Friday.
The notice was served by Chairman of The Statesman Ltd and a Director of UNI R P Gupta, after Khera in a tweet insinuated that someone in “the highest office” had helped Gupta acquire a media company.
In a strongly worded notice the lawyers for Gupta, termed the X post as “bare faced lies dressed up as innuendo” and stated that Khera had defamed not just his client but the President of India for his narrow political ends.
Accusing Khera of using the “cowardly device of defamation”; uttering “bare-faced lies”; acting in an anti-national manner by defaming the President and displaying contumacious behaviour towards judicial institutions, the notice demanded a retraction, an apology and a written undertaking from the Congress Spokesperson to desist from repeating the defamatory allegations.
Should Khera fail to comply, the notice stated: “I have instructions to proceed against you, both under civil and criminal law and you shall also be liable for damages to the tune of Rs 100 Crore which shall be recoverable from you at your risk and cost.”
