Amit Shah’s son to sue news website for ₹100 cr

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will file a ~100 crore defamation suit against a website, the party said on Sunday after a news report said a company owned by the latter had seen a sharp spike in revenues since May 2014. The report, published in thewire.in, said Shah’s company Temple Enterprises Pvt Limited was “engaged in negligible activity”.

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Am it Shah’ s son Jay Shah will file a ₹100 crore defamation suit against a website, the party said on Sunday after a news report said a company owned by the latter had seen a sharp spike in revenues since May 2014.

The report, published in the wire. in, said Shah’s company Temple Enterprises Pvt Limited was “engaged in negligible activity” in the financial years ending March 2013 and 2014 but “jumped to a turnover of ₹80.5 crore in 2015-16”.

The company had taken an unsecured loan during the year for ₹15.78 crore, the news report said, adding that it finally wound up in October 2016 after posting a loss.

Jay Shah issued a statement saying the article “makes false, derogatory and defamatory imputation against me by creating in the minds of right thinking people an impression that my business owes its ‘success’ to my father Sri Amit Bhai Shah’s political position .”

“My businesses are fully legi ti- mate and conducted in a lawful manner on commercial lines which is reflected in my tax records and are through banking transactions,” Shah said in his statement which added that he would press criminal and civil defamation charges against the website.