Legal notice for AN Shamseer for criticising RSS

Mumbai: Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha General Secretary Radhakrishin Bhagia has sent a defamation notice to A N Shamseer, CPI (M) MLA from Thalassery, for allegedly claiming during a TV news debate that the RSS killed Mahatma Gandhi.

In the notice, Bhagia complains that he is offended by views expressed by the MLA. He alleges that, in a debate on a prominent English news channel on June 18, Shamseer made "baseless allegations" on the RSS having killed Gandhi and of it being "a terrorist organisation."

"Till date, there is no judicial judgment pronounce by any court of law or any commission of inquiry report to substantiate these allegations of yours that RSS killed Gandhi or that the RSS is a terrorist organisation," Bhagia stated in his complaint.

The MLA is asked to withdraw his statements and apologise within 15 days, failing which he will initiate civil and criminal proceedings.

However, A N Shamseer told that he has not yet received the notice. "I stand by my views and believe in them," he added.