By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: Mr. Wasim Ahmad, the former Rajya Sabha member, has served a legal notice of defamation to Aligarh Muslim University, (AMU), Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis for defaming him through his Press statements issued on December 15, 2010 and September 27, 2011 circulated by the PRO and the Officiating PRO of AMU.
The legal notice dated October 7, 2011 has been sent through his counsel Adv. Chetaan R. Anand. Mr. Wasim Ahmad, who is Executive Council member of AMU and an alumni of AMU having obtained his engineering degree from the university, has called upon the Vice Chancellor Prof. Azis to withdraw all the false allegations made against him in the two Press statements of December 15, 2010 and September 27, 2011 within 10 days and publish unconditional apology for the same and circulate it in all the channels of media. If this is not done within the aforesaid period then he will be compelled to file a defamation case against the Vice Chancellor in Criminal as well as Civil court, the notice stated..
The notice of defamation said that in the Press statement dated December 15, 2010 published in several newspapers Prof. Azis has made innumerable false, baseless and defamatory statements, insinuations and allegations against Mr. Wasim which has caused enormous damage to his reputation and lowered his image in the estimation of the general public and specially in the Alig community residing at Delhi and other places.
The Press statement of December 15 has wrongly made false allegations against Mr. Wasim including that as if he (Mr. Wasim) had been carrying on a vilification campaign against the Vice Chancellor for the alleged reason that he and his group could not get “the high handled role they sought” from him as the Vice Chancellor. It has also been wrongly alleged in the said statement that Mr. Wasim had allegedly “come out to tarnish the image of AMU with a Memorandum with totally false and misleading information”, the notice stated.
That in the same Press statement dated December 15, 2010 Vice Chancellor has falsely stated: “Mr. Wasim Ahmad remains the kingpin for all the trouble faced by the AMU”. It was also wrongly alleged in the said statement that “All these efforts by Mr. Wasim Ahmad and alike have done great harm to the reputation and prestige of this (AMU) great institution”.
The notice said that again Vice Chancellor Prof. Abdul Azis in his letter to the Editor, Times of India, New Delhi dated September 27, 2011, circulated at the AMU by the Officiating PRO, has falsely alleged that the so-called hostile faculties of Mr. Wasim Ahmad had suddenly woke up and assumed the present dimensions when he (Prof. Azis) had “denied to Mr. Wasim the illegitimate largesse he was enjoying in AMU such as free guest house stay and meals, local transportation in official vehicles, quota in admissions, appointments and contracts……”. All these allegations are not only false and baseless but rather the same have been made and circulated at the AMU network to defame Mr. Wasim and cause damage to his reputation at the International level as this Network has a large circulation among the Aligarh community throughout the world, the defamation notice added.
Thus, the notice stated that it is evident that you (Prof. Azis) have tried to give wide publicity to the aforesaid false and defamatory allegations against Mr. Wasim in order to cause maximum damage to his reputation.
That as a matter of fact Mr. Wasim has never sought to enjoy any largesse during the regime of any Vice Chancellor and he has never sought to stay at the guest house or took meals over there in an unauthorized manner. There has never been any occasion during the last about 20 years or so when he (Mr. Wasim) might have claimed any so-called quota in admissions, appointments and contracts, the notice clarified.
It, is, therefore, evident that all these false and malicious allegations have been made just to lower the image of Mr. Wasim Ahmad in the estimation of the general public, the defamatory notice stressed. As such withdraw all the false allegations made against Mr. Wasim, the notice pleaded. ([email protected])