Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, has sent a legal notice seeking unconditional apology from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar ‘for making disparaging libellous statements defaming Sukesh’ following the Home Ministry’s nod for Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) probe into the alleged extortion case involving AAP leader Satyendra Jain, who is currently in Tihar jail.
The notice reads, “That it is a well-established principle of law that one is innocent until proven guilty and our client today stands on the same footing. He has never been convicted and is simply an accused and enjoys equal protection under the law. Thus, by making such libellous and defamatory statements about our client, you have trampled upon and rendered the very essence of this principle redundant and questionable.”
She has also been asked to, within 7 days from the date of receipt of the legal notice, unconditionally retract and withdraw all the ‘malafide, defamatory and scurrilous imputations and remarks’ made by her against Sukesh. It also asks the leader to issue an unconditional public apology immediately, failing to do so will result in appropriate legal proceedings.
Sukesh claims that the term “notorious conman” in Kakkar’s statement has caused ruinous and irremediable damage to his reputation.
“Such vilification has tarnished his reputation and which reputation and goodwill is an implicit right guaranteed under the Indian Constitution,” the notice reads.
It also states that Sukesh is at the ‘same footing like anyone else today as he is simply
an undertrial just like Satyender Jain and has never been convicted.’
Sukesh exerts that ‘simply being in jail does not strip him of his rights.’
On Kakkar’s statement, "The vindictive and vendetta-filled politics of BJP has now reached a new low that a notorious conman's word is believed and accepted as the gospel truth
against a person who gave the world Delhi's famous Mohalla Clinic concept,” the conman alleges that it has subjected him to ‘loss of reputation, goodwill, harassment and
mental agony, and various other adverse consequences.’
The legal notice alleges that even in the past AAP leader has received a criminal defamation notice from BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala over her “Shehzad Mujahideen”
comment on a TV news show. “It appears like you have no regard whatsoever
