Sameer Wankhede’s father filed Rs 1.25 crore defamation suit against NCP politician Nawab Malik. Father of Sameer Wankhede, Dhyandev Wankhede filed Rs 1.25 crore defamation suit against National Congress Party(NCP) politician and Maharastra Minister, Nawab Malik for maligning the image of his son Sameer Wankhede and his family by putting fake alligations against them.

Vacation Bench of single-judge Justice Madhav Jamdar to heared the case. Justice Madhav Jamdar asked Nawab Malik to file a reply by 9th of November. Advocate Atul Damle appearing for Malik, however stated that he had no instructions from his client to make any statements or give undertaking in court.He further raised objection on the maintainability of the suit by pointing out that the suit filed by the father was to raise grievances on behalf of his son and daughter.He sought for 2-3 more days to file reply to the suit. But Justice Madhav lashed and rejected the request to give 2-3 days and noted “If you can give reply on Twitter then you better reply here also,” Justice Madhav Jamdar said before passing an order to file a reply by November 9, 2021.The hearing on suit was adjourned to November 10, 2021.

Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik earlier accused and threathened Sameer Wankhede by saying “They(opposition party) have a puppet-Wankhede. He raises bogus cases against people. I challenge that Wankhede that he’ll lose his job within a yr. You came to jail us,people of this nation won’t be silent without seeing you behind bars. We have evidence of bogus cases”. Nawab Malik further added ” Tell us who your father is, the one who is putting pressure? Nawab Malik isn’t going to be scared of anyone’s father whatever pressure you may try to put on me. I won’t stop until I put you in jail, I’d like to make this clear today. From then, Nawab Malik is constantly attacking and defaming Wankhede family through fake allegations.

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