New Delhi, December 11
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya today issued a legal notice to former Governor Romesh Bhandari for accusing a “very close” associate of the senior BJP leader of involvement in Iraqi oil scam and asserted he had neither met nor had any dealings with ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s son Uday as alleged.
In a statement issued on behalf of Mr Bhattacharya here, his lawyer R N Karanjawala said “my client has never met or had any involvement with Saddam Hussein’s son Uday. Since he has had no connection with Uday, the question of him being a partner in any of Uday Hussein’s companies does not arise”.
Terming Mr Bhandari’s charges in an interview with Outlook Hindi magazine as “false, malicious and defamatory”, it said, “My client has never had and does not have any partnership/company of any kind in Jordan. He has had no oil links in Iraq or Jordan or any concern with any oil deals of Iraq. He has also never done any business in or with Iraq.”
“The passport details of my client would clearly reveal that my client has never travelled to either Iraq or Jordan”, it said, adding that “my client has also issued a legal notice to Romesh Bhandari”.
—PTI
