WEB DESK
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group companies have filed a Rs 5,000-crore defamation suit against ‘National Herald’, a newspaper owned by Congress party. Group claimed that an article published in the newspaper regarding the Rafale fighter deal was “libellous and derogatory”.
The civil defamation suit was filed by Reliance Defence, Reliance Infrastructure and Reliance Aerostructure, which belong to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group, against the Associated Journals Limited, the publisher of the National Herald, its editor in-charge Zafar Agha, and author of the article, Vishwadeepak.
The suit was filed on Friday in the court of Ahmedabad city civil and sessions judge P.J. Tamakuwala, who issued notices to the respondents and sought replies by September 7.
In the suit, the companies alleged the article titled ‘Anil Ambani floated Reliance Defence 10 days before Modi announced Rafale deal’ was libellous and defamatory, and it “misleads the general public to believe that undue business favours are being extended to them by the government of the day”.