Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group has decided to withdraw the Rs 5,000-crore civil defamation suits filed in an Ahmedabad court against Congress leaders and National Herald newspaper over their statements and an article on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal. The suits were being heard in the court of city civil and sessions judge P J Tamakuwala.
“We have intimated the defendants that we are going to withdraw the suits against them,” the complainant’s lawyer, Rasesh Parikh, told PTI on Tuesday.
P S Champaneri, the lawyer representing the National Herald and some other defendants, said he was told by the Reliance Group’s counsel that he received instructions from his client to withdraw the defamation suits against them. The formal process to withdraw the suits will be taken up in the court when it resumes after the summer vacation, Champaneri said.
