India, Oct. 3 -- Singer Kumar Sanu has sent a legal notice to his ex-wife Rita Bhattacharya over allegations that he and his family deprived her of food and basic necessities during her third pregnancy. "We will ensure that malicious attempts to defame him are met with the full force of the law to protect his dignity, legacy and family honour. No individual or media platform has the right to malign a father's honour or trade his family's respect for sensationalism," his lawyer Sana Raees Khan said in a statement on Thursday. Rita had said in an interview on Saturday: "He denied them milk. He denied them medical care. You don't know how much this man has tortured my children. The milkman told me he'd been told not to come over anymore, but he still gave me milk. Same with the doctor who delivered all three of my sons." She also said she was given only Rs.100 during the divorce and had to sell her jewellery to survive. Kumar Sanu (67) married Rita in 1980 and divorced in 1994 after a turbulent marriage. During that time, Kumar was also linked to actor Kunickaa Sadanand. He later married Saloni Bhattacharya in 2001, with whom he has two daughters. htc...