BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will file a criminal defamation suit of ₹100 crore against The Wire news website, which claimed that a company owned by him saw a 16,000-times jump in turnover in a year.
Rejecting the Opposition’s charge, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, who briefed the media, said Mr. Jay Shah would be filing the case against the author of article, the Editor and the owner of the online portal.
“We reject the allegations, and the confidence in our way of work is reflected from the fact that Jay Shah is proceeding to file a civil and criminal defamation,” said Mr. Goyal.
Based on the filings with the Registrar of Companies, the portal also claimed that another company, where Jay Shah is a partner, got a loan from a bank against a collateral of ₹7 crore.
