Jay Shah files Rs 100-crore defamation case

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah's son Jay Shah filed a Rs 100-crore defamation case against the author, editors and owners of a news website which published a story stating that a company owned by him had seen its turnover going up by a whopping 16,000 times, from Rs 50,000 to Rs 80 crore, within a year.

Shah filed the criminal defamation case in the court of the Metropolitan Magistrate in Ahmedabad under Section 500, read with Sections 109, 34 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, on Monday evening. "The defamatory article is scandalous, frivolous, misleading, derogatory, libelous and consists of several defamatory statements against the complainant. The article is a character assassination of the complainant without any verification, authenticity and/or reasonable due diligence," the petition submitted by him reads. 

The petition further states that the accused persons, in a malafide manner, addressed a questionnaire to the complainant at around 1 am last Friday, and he was asked to respond by 6 pm on the same day.

"Such unreasonableness clearly highlights the malafides of the accused in seeking to execute their predetermined conspiracy of defaming the complainant," it said.