Row over amit shah's son rs 100 cr defamation suit and 10 developments

Row over Amit Shah's son: Rs 100-cr defamation suit and 10 developments

Row over Amit Shah's son: Rs 100-cr defamation suit and 10 developments on Business Standard. The Congress, CPI(M), and the AAP have sought an inquiry into allegations against Jay Shah

Latest News A political storm hit the Narendra Modi-led government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after a news website reported that a company run by party chief Amit Shah's son, Jay Shah, recorded a 16,000-times increase in turnover in only a year after Modi became the Prime Minister and the senior Shah the party president.

In a statement that the BJP released on Sunday evening, Jay said he would be filing civil and criminal defamation cases against the news website's owners, editor, and the author of the article in Ahmedabad, where he runs his business, and sue them for Rs 100 crore in damages.

The Congress, CPI-M, and the AAP on Sunday sought an inquiry into allegations against Jay Shah and a company linked to him.

Responding to the article, the BJP rubbished the allegations and Jay Shah issued a statement saying the article carried by the website, The Wire, had made "false, derogatory and defamatory imputations" against him.

These developments came over a report, written

by Rohini Singh in The Wire, detailing the growth of Jay Shah's company, Temple Enterprise Private Ltd, from revenues of Rs 50,000 in 2014-15 to Rs 80.5 crore in 2015-16.

The controversy comes at a politically significant moment with election to the Gujarat Assembly barely 60 days away, and the winter session of Parliament scheduled to start in the first half of November.

Here are the top 10 developments

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