{"id":25034,"date":"2026-07-13T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=25034"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:54:34","slug":"bjp-serves-legal-notice-to-omar-over-rs-20-30-crore-mla-poaching-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/bjp-serves-legal-notice-to-omar-over-rs-20-30-crore-mla-poaching-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0BJP serves legal notice to Omar over Rs 20-30 crore MLA poaching claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demands Rs 100 crore damages, apology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Jul 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday served a legal notice to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over his claims that a BJP functionary, who is practising as lawyer in the Supreme Court, offered Rs 20\u201330 crore to one of his MLAs to switch sides.<\/p>\n

As per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the notice, issued by advocate Parimoksh Seth on behalf of Sat Paul Sharma, President of the Jammu & Kashmir unit of BJP, describes Omar Abdullah\u2019s May statement-that a BJP office-bearer had approached his MLA with an offer of Rs 20\u201330 crore to defect-as false, baseless, and defamatory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat the said allegations made by you are entirely untrue, malicious, and without any factual basis. The statement issued by you has seriously harmed my client\u2019s reputation, dignity, and standing in society, and has caused immense damage to his public image,\u201d the notice reads.<\/p>\n

The legal notice demands that Omar Abdullah withdraw his allegations in writing and issue an unconditional public apology within seven days. It also directs him to refrain from publishing or circulating any further defamatory material about the BJP and to immediately cease and desist from making or repeating any false or defamatory statements against the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the event of your failure to comply with the above demands within the stipulated period, my client shall be constrained to initiate appropriate civil as well as criminal proceedings against you before the competent court, including but not limited to damages to the tune of Rs100 crore for defamation, and filing of criminal prosecution for defamation, along with any other remedies available under law, entirely at your own risk and responsibility as to costs and consequences,\u201d the notice warns.<\/p>\n

On July 11, the Chief Minister said that the BJP was attempting to topple his government, and one of its office-bearers had approached a party MLA, offering him Rs 20\u201330 crore to side with the BJP. (KNO)<\/p>\n

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Demands Rs 100 crore damages, apology Srinagar, Jul 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday served a legal notice to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over his claims that a BJP functionary, who is practising as lawyer in the Supreme Court, offered Rs 20\u201330 crore to one of his MLAs to switch sides. As per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25037,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions\/25037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}