New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Congress spokesperson and Chairman of the party's Media and Publicity department Pawan Khera has been served with a defamation notice of Rs 100 crore for a post on X released early Friday.
The notice was served by Chairman of The Statesman Ltd and a Director of UNI R P Gupta, after Khera in a tweet insinuated that someone in "the highest office" had helped Gupta acquire a media company.
In a strongly worded notice the lawyers for Gupta, termed the X post as "bare faced lies dressed up as innuendo" and stated that Khera had defamed not just his client but the President of India for his narrow political ends.
Accusing Khera of using the "cowardly device of defamation"; uttering "bare-faced lies"; acting in an anti-nat...