Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has served Rs 10-crore defamation notice to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and State Congress president Kanti lal Bhuria. The defamation notice has been served on a Congress advertisement on corruption in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan family. The ad says, “A greedy family has looted Madhya Pradesh.” The Congress has been taking digs at Chouhan over alleged corruption in the recent past. The alleged defamatory publication in newspapers and internet via an advertisement accused the family of Chief Minister of keeping a currency counting machine at their official residence, purchase of dumpers and giving contracts to in-laws, among others. The notice asked the Congress to publish similar size ad in the same papers for withdrawing the charges in a fortnight failing which the two threatened to file a Rs 10 crore defamation suit. A notice has also been sent to MPCC and its State president Kantilal Bhuria.stating that false statements/advertisement published in the media on November 13, 2013 caused an irreparable damage to reputation, trauma and agony to the CM and his wife.