Jethmalani sends legal notice to Thackeray

Noted advocate Ram Jethmalani has sent a legal notice to MNS chief Raj Thackeray asking him to apologise for incorrectly calling him the lawyer of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.      

"You are not sure of the facts. Afzal Guru's mercy petition is pending before the President on the grounds that he was not represented by lawyers during the trial," Jethmalani said in the notice to the MNS chief yesterday.      

Jethmalani also said he will press charges against Thackeray if he does not apologise within 48 hours for his comment allegedly made during an election rally.      

However, Thackeray's lawyer Sayagi Nagre told PTI that the MNS chief "has not received any such notice yet and will definitely give a befitting reply as soon as he receives it."      

"We will file a suitable reply to the notice after going through its contents," Nagre added.      

Jethmalani, a former Union Law Minister, also told Thackeray that he was not like shopkeepers of Mumbai who out of his fear change their establishments' names from 'Karachi sweets' to 'Krishna sweets'.