BALENDU SHEKHAR

Advocate
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 SPEED POST/COURIER LEGAL NOTICE To Mr. Digvijaya Singh, General Secretary, All India Congress Committee (AICC), R/o 64, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi 110003 Sir, Under instructions from and on behalf of my client Mr. Nitin Gadkari, R/o 13, Teen Murti Lane, New Delhi-110011, I do hereby serve you with the following legal notice:1. That my client is National President, Bharatiya Janata Party,

Opposition Party of India and was Cabinet Minister in Maharashtra and held various other organizational responsibilities. He is a well known public figure highly respected in all spheres of life. 2. That my client is doing social services relentlessly for last several

decades and has impeccable image in the eyes of public. 3. That various friends and well wishers of my client informed him

that they were shocked to see news in various print and electronic media widely circulated that you noticee deliberately and recklessly made false and defamatory allegations against my client with the intention and knowledge of harming my clients reputation with the knowledge that same are false and lowering his image in the eyes of the public.

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4. The wild and concocted allegations made by you noticee are

completely concocted, defamatory, scandalous and un-parliamentary and have maligned the image of my client. 5. The excerpts of the Hindustan Times dated 03.09.2012 are as . All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said that Ajay Sancheti, business partner of national BJP president Nitin Gadkari, has earned profit worth Rs. 490 crore from coal mines in Chhattisgarh. You noticee again made .. false allegations against my client on

follows:-

11.09.2012. The excerpts of some news dailies are as follows:-

. Dainik Jagran dated 12.09.2012 ".. BJP sansad Ajay Sancheti, Nitin Gadkari ke partner hain unhe single bid mein khadaan mili. Unko Rs 500 crore ka fayda hua (BJP legislator Ajay Sancheti and Nitin Gadkari are partners. He got the coal block in single bid and earned a profit of Rs 500 crore.) How did BJP allocate blocks in a single bid?" asked Digvijaya Dailybhaskar.com dated 12.09.2012 A BJP Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti's company SRS Infrastructure was given a coal block by the Chhattisgarh government with a state government partnership. Sancheti, who is a business partner of BJP
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president Nitin Gadkari, was allotted the block at Rs 129 per metric tonne by the Chhattisgarh government when the adjoining coal block was given at the price of Rs 530 per metric tonne,'' he alleged. Tehelka dated 12.09.2012 6. That the aforesaid defamatory, scandalous, false and reckless

statements and news items have been widely published circulated and read by public at large and have lowered the dignity of my client in the eyes of the public. Such scandalous, fabricated, defamatory and reckless allegations have been made by you with ulterior motives and wrongful intent to malign and tarnish the image of my client. 7. My client therefore calls upon you noticee to issue public apology

and withdraw your defamatory statements against my client within three days of receipt of this legal notice, failing which my client will be constrained to take appropriate legal action against you including prosecuting you for criminal defamation at your risk, cost and consequences.

(Balendu Shekhar) Advocate

P.S.

Copy of this Reply has been retained in my office for further appropriate action.

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