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India: Text of Citizens for Justice and Peace Legal Notice to ’The Pioneer’ For Defamation

22 April 2014

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The Citizens for Justice and Peace has served a Legal Notice on The Pioneer edited by BJP parliamentarian, Chandan Mitra for carrying a series of slanderous and defamatory articles, the last one of which appeared today dated April 21, 2014. The notice served by the CJP’s lawyer, Mr Mihir Desai is a notice to publish the content of the Legal Notice in Full with an Apology or face Criminal and or Civil defamation.

Enclosed is a Copy of the Legal Notice.

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Trustees:
Alyque Padamsee, Raghunandan Maluste, Teesta Setalvad, I.M. Kadri, Cyrus Guzder, Javed Akhtar, Anil Dharker, Ghulam Pesh Imam, Javed Anand, Rahul Bose, Cedric Prakash, Shakuntala Kulkarni

Full Text of Defamation Notice to The Pioneer
21 April 2014 [PDF]