My legal notice to @rsprasad about his false, malicious & defamatory statements against me, which he has still not… https://t.co/PB8nEiKqTD — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1540987693000

Shashi Tharoor sends legal notice to Ravi Shankar Prasad

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has sent a legal notice to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for stating in a press conference that "Tharoor is an accused in a case of murder.""My legal notice to @rsprasad about his false, malicious & defamatory statements against me, which he has still not retracted. When India’s Law Minister falsely invents a murder case against a political opponent, what hope for justice & democracy?," Tharoor said in a tweet.The notice sent by Tharoor's lawyers to Ravi Shankar Prasad says, "On October 28, 2018 at around 5.38am you had posted a 2 minutes 16 seconds video clip of your press conference along with certain false untrue malicious and highly defamatory statements in Twitter."The notice states that in the ongoing criminal case against Shashi Tharoor in relation to the death of his late wife Sunanda Pushkar , the legal offence alleged by the prosecution against him is not that of murder and the honourable court, which is trying his case, is yet to frame any charge against him."Even the police chargesheet against Shashi Tharoor does not contain any allegations of murder," it says, adding, "your purposeful comment that Shashi Tharoor is chargesheeted in a serious allegation of murder, seems to have sme oblique motives behind it as the said comments have come from a person who is none other than the Union minister of law and justice.""At any rate the intention and purpose behind the false and baseless imputations against Shashi Tharoor is clearly to harm, tarnish and malign his reputation and to destroy his impeccable image that he enjoys among the public," the notice reads.The notice accuses Ravi Shankar Prasad of committing the offence of defamation and calls upon him to tender an unconditional and written apology in 48 hours.The notice also calls on the Union minister to delete the video and warns of both civil and criminal cases in case of non-compliance.