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Kathua case lawyer sends legal notice to Zee News

Even as Zee News has been running programmes questioning the chargesheet filed in the Kathua rape case, Deepika Singh, lawyer for the Kathua victim’s family, has sent a legal notice To Zee Hindi News for a programme run by Zee Hindi News on April 17 in which Sudhir Chaudhury had alleged that Deepika Singh Rajawat had stayed at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, with the innuendo that she had supported anti-national elements. The notice said, "while my client reiterates that she has never stayed at JNU, she nevertheless firmly believes that there cannot be anything remotely wrong in staying in JNU, if ever she did. Your innuendoes and spreading of communal hatred constituted a threat to her life."

Journalist, not granddaughter

Lakshmi Subramanian of The Week who had to suffer the misogyny of a cheek-pat from the Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit dismissed the Governor's defence of his action saying that she was like his granddaughter. In an interview to Sam Daniel of NDTV she explained her views clearly : "The Governor is a Constitutional Head and I am a journalist - this grandfather, granddaughter thing does not work." Are elected politicians and residents of Raj Bhavans listening ?