NEW DELHI: Congress MP and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi has served a legal notice to UK-based lawyer Sarosh Zaiwalla for “defamatory references” to his father late L M Singhvi in his book “Honour Bound” and sought deletion of those portions besides a public apology.

In his notice, Singhvi accused Zaiwalla of making “false, frivolous, baseless and vexatious” statements regarding his father who was a renowned legal expert and diplomat.

He said the book had made insinuations that “there was undue influence and abuse of power” on the part of Late Dr L M Singhvi on an arbitration tribunal to pass a favourable award in which he was appearing as counsel.

Zaiwalla was in India for the launch of his memoir, ‘Honour Bound’. Singhvi also referred to the interview given by Zaiwalla to TOI “through which he had deliberately compounded the felony”. “We demand that the book titled ‘Honour Bound’ be recalled forthwith by you and defamatory portions of the book deleted ... You must tender an unconditional apology... ,” the notice said.

