Tharoor sues Arnab Goswami

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/05/2017

The Quint reports that Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, has filed a civl defamation case against Arnab Goswami of Republic TV for the story recently broadcast by the channel saying that Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar had been murdered. He is seeking damages of Rs 2 crore from Goswami. At one point in the story Goswami referred to him as a cold-blooded murderer. Tharoor told the website that the case would be taken up on May 29.

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