Summons against Meham MLA in defamation case

Rohtak, June 1

A Rohtak court today summoned Balraj Kundu, Independent MLA from the Meham Assembly constituency, in a defamation case filed by BJP leader and former Haryana Minister of State for Cooperatives Manish Grover.

The court of CJM Ashish Kumar Sharma summoned Kundu on August 4 to face a trial in respect of offence under Sections 499 and 500 IPC.

At a news conference convened on January 3, 2020, Kundu had accused Grover of indulging in rampant corruption during his tenure as a minister and instigating violence during the Jat agitation in February, 2016.

Maintaining that the allegations levelled by the MLA were baseless and derogatory which had defamed him in public, Grover had got a legal notice served to Kundu to withdraw his defamatory and malicious remarks, but he did not apologise despite having got the notice, following which the complaint was filed before the court. —TNS