YouTuber Rashid Siddiqui reacts to Akshay Kumar's Rs 500 crore defamation claim against him

After Akshay Kumar filed a Rs 500 crore defamation case against YouTuber Rashid Siddiqui, the latter said that his video is not 'defamatory'. For the uninitiated, Rashid brought up Akshay's name in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. He had also linked Akshay with SSR's girlfriend and Rhea Chakraborty, claiming that the actor helped Rhea to escape to Canada. Now as per The Times of India, Rashid's lawyer JP Jasywal in his reply called the allegations by Akshay as 'false, vexatious and oppressive'.

The daily also reported that Jasywal has urged Akshay to withdraw the notice or they will initiate legal proceedings against him. The actor had filed the defamation case against Rashid through IC Legal Firm. 

Meanwhile, Siddiqui was earlier arrested for spreading fake news and dragging the name of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son, minister Aditya Thackeray, in the case.

The YouTuber used digital media to allegedly mislead people and spread fake news about several celebrities.

He named Akshay on several occasions in his videos and levelled various allegations. In one instance, Siddiqui claimed that Akshay was unhappy with Sushant getting big films like MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, and alleged that the actor had "secret meetings" with Aditya Thackeray and the Mumbai Police. 

It has been reported that Siddiqui, a civil engineer from Bihar, has been accused of defamation, public mischief and intentional insult. It is believed that Siddiqui earned around Rs 15 lakh in a span of four months and his subscribers also grew from two lakh to over three lakh.