A legal notice was sent to Congress Party by Mumbai-based firm Mulla & Mulla, and Craigie Blunt & Caroe on behalf of Reliance Infrastructure Limited, Reliance Defence Limited and Reliance Aerostructure Limited, belonging to Reliance Group of companies led by Anil Ambani.
The Notice received by the Congress media coordinator Sanjiv Singh, said that allegations made by Congress leaders against Reliance Group of Companies led by Anil Ambani were false, frivolous, misleading and derogatory in nature that it created a negative image about the company in the minds of the public and resulted in defamation of the clients.
This legal notice has been sent days after Reliance chairman Anil Ambani’s second letter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in which the industrialist described allegations on the Rafale deal as “baseless, ill-informed and unfortunate.”
Recently the Congress announced a plan for a massive nation-wide campaign on the Rafael deal to tarnish Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personally in re-negotiating the fighter jet contract, benefitting some businessmen. Gandhi tasked a six-member team led by senior leader S Jaipal Reddy to conduct an extensive month-long campaign across the country to highlight the alleged irregularities in the fighter aircraft purchase from France.
Now to save his name from such gross falsehood, Anil Ambani-led Reliance group on Wednesday filed defamation suits against several Congress leaders, who levelled baseless allegations against the company in connection with the controversial defence deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France in a government-to-government contract.
The leaders manning The Dirty Tricks Department who have been taken to the court include Randeep Surjewala, Ashok Chavan, Sanjay Nirupam, Anurag Narayan Singh, Oommen Chandy, Shaktisinh Gohil, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sunil Jakhar and Priyanka Chaturvedi.
The above Congress managers had failed to comply with the legal notices sent to them, and therefore Reliance Group companies were constrained to file separate defamation suits against each of them.
It appears that a vilification campaign is being carried out by these managers of a political party at the instances of corporate rivals to deliberately besmirch the good name and reputation and undermine and prejudicially affect the commercial interests of the large family of shareholders if Reliance Group for petty personal and political gains.
“Freedom of expression and speech should not be mistaken as a license to behave irresponsibly and make false, frivolous, misleading and distorted statements to suit your political interest. Political leaders should release statements based only on irrefutable evidence which have been gathered after due inquiry and verification from the concerned source,” reads the notice.
So now, proof has to be given to the Court and falsehood will get exposed.
