Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 09 2009:
PDA candidate in the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency Mani Charenamei, through his layer, today served a legal notice on he editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition) alleging that the editorial of the April 8 edition of the daily had defamed him by describing him as 'a great danger to the unity and integrity of Manipur...' .
Mani's lawyer has demanded an apology from the editor to be published on the front page of the daily within 24 hours failing which a criminal complaint case u/s 500 IPC and a civil suit for compensation of Rs 1 crore would be filed against the editor and also a complaint would be send to the Press Council of India to censure the editor for violation of the standards of journalistic ethics u/s 14 of the PCI Act, 1978 .