Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP from Pune, Vandana Chavan, in the eye of a raging controversy after alleged cruelty to animals, has sent a defamation notice to her neighbour, a city-based professor, accusing him of ‘tarnishing her reputation’.
Ms. Chavan has accused Professor Vijay Navdikar of ‘wilful slander’ and has demanded a whopping Rs. 5 crore from Mr. Navdikar as recompense.
In 2014, Professor Navdikar had alleged that Ms. Chavan and her sister-in-law, who apparently found his cats a nuisance, had cruelly tortured and maimed his pet cats. He had taken the NCP MP to court on that count.
On August 8 this year, the Court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Pune had issued a summons to Ms. Chavan in the two-year-old case of animal cruelty filed against her by Mr. Navdikar.
