Mumbai High Court Sends Legal Notice to Harbhajan Singh in Defamation Case
Updated - 05 May 2018, 04:14 PM
Veteran spinner Harbhajan Singh has landed in hot waters as Mumbai High Court has served him a legal notice in relation to the defamation case lodged by former Jet Airways pilot Bernd Hosselin. The notice has been served to Harbhajan’s Chandigarh and Jalandhar address respectively.
In his defamation suit, Hosselin claimed that Harbhajan’s remark has affected his professional career. The German pilot had lodged the complaint on December 13 last year.
In his notice, Hosselin had said he was subsequently sacked from Jet Airways for no fault of his and “despite, repeated assurances from their senior officials of Jet Airways, of not doing anything wrong, and acting in accordance with their and DGCA rules.”
Hosselin had also asked for a massive compensation of $15 million which is roughly equal to INR 97.5 crore. Harbhajan and two others who were accompanying him during the flight have been asked to appear in the court on June 12. And in case the trio fails to appear in the court, the case can go against them.
The incident:
The incident happened on board a Jet aircraft on April 3. Harbhajan and his companions Pooja Gujaral and Jatinder Singh Shah brought Shah’s personal wheelchair inside the aircraft.
However, the practise was not in keeping with DGCA norms. Hosselin asked Gujaral to remove the wheelchair, leading to an argument.
Harbhajan later sent out several tweets accusing Hosselin of racial slurs.
“…this Bernd Hosselin a pilot with @jetairways called my fellow Indian (u bloody Indian get out of my flight) while he is earning here,” he had tweeted.
“Not only was he racist, but physically assaulted a lady and abused a physically challenged man…,” he had said in another tweet.
Soon after Harbhajan’s remarks, Jet Airways had terminated Hosselin’s contract.
Meanwhile, Harbhajan Singh is currently plying his trade for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Indian Premier League’s eleventh edition.
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