Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party functionary Mohit Bharatiya has filed a second defamation case against NCP leader and state cabinet minister Nawab Malik.
Bharatiya in his complaint claimed that Malik once again made defamatory and derogatory statements about him during a press conference on November 7. The plea said that the defamatory imputations, remarks emanate out of sheer malice of the accused in tarnishing his reputation.
In October, Bharatiya had filed a defamation case in the Mazgaon metropolitan magistrate’s court against Malik for allegedly defaming him by claiming that his brother-in-law, Rishabh Sachdev, was among the three persons detained and then released by the NCB in the cruise drug bust case.
Bharatiya, in his plea, said that Malik used his power and position as a cabinet minister on national television to raise doubts and spread frivolous allegations over the release of his brother-in-law. tnn
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