Pragya Singh Thakur sends legal notice to cartoonist Rachita Taneja over domain name
New Delhi, Dec 24: BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur Thursday send legal notice to cartoonist Rachita Taneja for registering and blocking domain name on the parliamentarian's name after the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
The MP from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, has asked Taneja, a social media influencer, to immediately restrain, cease and desist from using the website/ domain name www.pragyasinghthakur.com'.
The Supreme Court on December 18 had, separately, issued a show-cause notice to Taneja for her alleged scandalous tweets against the apex court.
The legal notice sent through criminal lawyer and Advocate on Record Namit Saxena alleged that there has been a pattern in Taneja's posts where she has deliberately named Thakur as a terrorist' which is a "contumacious and designed with the sole intention to malign the image" of the BJP leader.
The notice further alleged that Taneja's intention is to create a narrative against Thakur so as to hamper her pending trial.
Thakur is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case in which 10 people were killed and several injured. She is facing trial under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In 2017, she was granted bail on health grounds.
The legal notice states that Thakur was elected as a parliamentarian from Bhartiya Janta Party on May 24, 2019 and two weeks later on June 8, 2019 Rachita Taneja registered the domain name www.pragyasinghthakur.com'.
It alleged that Taneja in her social media handles has deliberately posted baseless content which portrays an incorrect image of the BJP leader.
Thakur, through her Delhi-based lawyer, has mentioned some of Taneja's posts in the legal notice to further allege that the intention behind this was to "orchestrate a motivated public hearing to obstruct the ongoing bench hearing against the MP and harass her".
"That the timeline on which these posts have been uploaded by you is extremely crucial as you wanted to create a narrative against my client to malign her reputation and goodwill immediately after my client's election results. This is in line with concerted efforts made to jeopardize my client's image amongst the society," Saxena said in the legal notice.
The BJP MP in the legal notice asked to show cause within seven days as to why and under what circumstances and with what intention did Taneja purchase/create/register/block the said domain name on June 8, 2019.
The politician asked the cartoonist to restrain from using the said website/domain name or any variant thereof in the name of Pragya Thakur.
The notice to Taneja said: "That in case you fail to comply with the terms of this notice, we shall be constrained to initiate appropriate legal proceedings, both civil and criminal, against you".
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
