Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will file a Rs 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” in the financial years ending March 2013 and 2014 but “jumped to a turnover of Rs 80.5 crore in 2015-16”.
The company had taken an unsecured loan during the year for Rs 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.”