Court summons PSU official for defaming Muslim employee

The court was hearing a complaint of K Z Khan,a resident of Kalkaji in south Delhi,seeking prosecution of three senior officials of the NPCCL for issuing defamatory letters against him to various government agencies.

Seeking the presence of the accused official on February 21,the court said the alleged letters were written by him to the National Minorities Commission and to the Government of India.

The court,however,refused to issue summons to the PSU and its two other officials saying “there is no evidene against any other respondents.”

“Since the appointment of the complainant with the company in 1990 as a senior stenegraphar,the senior officials are acting in a derogatory manner against him and are causing harassment to him for the reason that he is a Muslim,” Amit Kumar,counsel for Khan,said.

The complainant,who had earlier moved to the National Minorities Commission against the harassment,was shocked after seeing the “defamatory” letters of the NPCCL officials accusing him of drawing loans on the basis of fake documents,the counsel said.

No loan facility that too on the basis of fake documents has been ever availed by the complainant,he said.

One of the defamatory letters advised Khan to mend his “callous attitude on the pretext of his minority tag”,the lawyer said.