Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State Secretary and Spokesperson Sanjay Srivastava on Tuesday filed a defamation case against Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Kantilal Bhuria in a city court here for his alleged statement that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh had prior information on the attack by Maoists on the Congress convoy at Jeeram ghati in Bastar region of the State on May 25 this year.
A notice was sent to Bhuria on July 3, 2013 and it was neither replied by him which demanded a public apology for his statement nor there was any reaction from him before the expiry of the notice period till July 30, 2013. As a result, a defamation case was filed against him in a local court here today, a State BJP statement issued here stated.