Court summons Ravi Shankar Prasad

A court here on Saturday summoned Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to appear before it in a defamation case filed by Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP, Shashi Tharoor.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) took cognisance of the complaint and asked the Minister to appear before it on May 2, Mr. Tharoor’s lawyer told the media.

The MP had in December 2018 filed a defamation case against Mr. Prasad for allegedly making derogatory remarks in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death.