{"id":224,"date":"2014-03-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/geelani-slaps-rs-50-crore-defamation-suit-on-indian-newspaper\/"},"modified":"2014-03-23T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:15:00","slug":"geelani-slaps-rs-50-crore-defamation-suit-on-indian-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Geelani slaps Rs 50 crore defamation suit on Indian newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Srinagar:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani has sued Delhi-based newspaper for publishing \u2018a frivolous and fictitious story\u2019 about him and has sought a compensation of rupees 50 crore.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The legal notice slapped on \u2018The Times of India\u2019 states that Geelani reserves right to take all the legal recourses &#8212; for defaming and disrupting him&#8211; against this newspaper and its officials who have deliberately attempted to defame him.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said: \u2018The Times of India\u2019 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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">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\u2019s general editor, editor and its reporter in Jammu and Kashmir, Saleem Pandith, through a prominent lawyer M S Reshi.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The defamation suit also demands a compensation of Rupees 50 crore for causing defamation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cHe 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,\u201d his counsel noted.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The legal notice has challenged the \u2018mischievous reporting\u2019 of the newspaper that when Geelani was leaving to New Delhi for the treatment, \u201cHe 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\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Reshi also termed the report that \u201cGeelani has nominated his son as his successor, which has disappointed the hardcore section of the party\u201d as baseless.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Reshi in the notice states that the report was baseless and was a deliberate attempt to defame Geelani and his family. \u201cWe will take every possible step to bring them in the court of law for what they have done to harm the image of Geelani,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani has sued Delhi-based newspaper for publishing \u2018a frivolous and fictitious story\u2019 about him and has sought a compensation of rupees 50 crore. The legal notice slapped on \u2018The Times of India\u2019 states that Geelani reserves right to take all the legal recourses &#8212; for defaming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}