BHUBANESWAR: Development Commissioner Ajit Kumar Tripathy has filed a defamation case of Rs 30 lakh against vernacular daily The Samaja’ in the court of Senior Civil Judge, Bhubaneswar over an article published in the paper.
President and member of the Lok Sevak Mandal, printer, publisher and editor of the paper have been made parties in the case.
Senior lawyer Prashant Routray and his associate Girish Patnaik are arguing the case for Tripathy.
Tripathy had also filed a criminal case against the paper on September 23, 2005 in the court of Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bhubaneswar for publishing the article.
