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ShareMUMBAI: Anil Ambani, head of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), has filed a defamation suit in the Bombay High Court seeking Rs10,000 crore in damages from The New York Times (NYT) and his elder brother Mukesh Ambani.
Anil has alleged that the comments attributed to Mukesh, chairman of the Reliance Industries Limited, in an NYT article published on June 15 were "false, defamatory, malicious and totally baseless".
Sources in ADAG confirmed that the defamation suit was filed earlier this month and is likely to be heard in due course. One of Anil's lawyers, who requested anonymity, told DNA that his client had been libelled by certain allegations and statements in the NYT article written by Anand Giridharadas.
The NYT article stated: "What most distinguishes Reliance from its rivals is what Ambani's friends and associates describe as his "intelligence agency", a network of lobbyists and spies in New Delhi who they say collect data about the vulnerabilities of the powerful, about the minutiae of bureaucrat's schedules, about the activities of their competitors."
Mukesh is purported to have said in the interview that all such activities were overseen by Anil before they split, and had since been expunged from his tranche of the company. '"We demerged all of that," he (Mukesh) says, breaking out in a belly laugh...,' the NYT article says.
