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Geelani slaps Rs 50 crore defamation suit on Indian newspaper
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Sunday, 23 March 2014
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Srinagar: Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani
has sued Delhi-based newspaper for publishing ‘a frivolous and fictitious
story’ about him and has sought a compensation of rupees 50 crore.
The legal notice slapped on ‘The Times of India’ states
that Geelani reserves right to take all the legal recourses -- for defaming and
disrupting him-- against this newspaper and its officials who have deliberately
attempted to defame him.
Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said: ‘The Times of India’
in its March 14, 20014, edition has published a mischievous and baseless report
about the senior pro-freedom leader, in which an attempt has been made to cause
harm to his esteem, dignity and reputation.
Hurriyat had earlier announced that the amalgam would
take legal action against the newspaper and its officials. The legal notice has
been slapped on The Times of India, it’s general editor, editor and its
reporter in Jammu and Kashmir, Saleem Pandith, through a prominent lawyer M S
Reshi.
The defamation suit also demands a compensation of Rupees
50 crore for causing defamation.
In the legal notice, Reshi has said that his client is
the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference and at the same time chairman
of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat as well and he is a well known personality in the Asian
sub-continent.
“He is a towering and respectable leader of Jammu and
Kashmir and he is the leader of masses representing the sentiments of majority
of people of Jammu and Kashmir,” his counsel noted.
The legal notice has challenged the ‘mischievous
reporting’ of the newspaper that when Geelani was leaving to New Delhi for the
treatment, “He was driven to the tarmac and taken towards the aircraft on a
wheel chair but the 83 year old climbed up the stairs of the plane without
support”.
Reshi also termed the report that “Geelani has nominated
his son as his successor, which has disappointed the hardcore section of the
party” as baseless.
Reshi in the notice states that the report was baseless
and was a deliberate attempt to defame Geelani and his family. “We will take
every possible step to bring them in the court of law for what they have done
to harm the image of Geelani,” the spokesman said.
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