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Digvijay Singh gets legal notice for 'contempt of apex court'

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Press Trust of India Jabalpur
Last Updated : May 14 2013 | 10:05 PM IST
The city-based Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch, a local consumer organisation sent a legal notice to Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today, terming his statement against the Supreme Court's "caged parrot" comment about the CBI, as "contempt of apex court".
The consumer body has also demanded a public apology from him on the issue within a month.
Manch patron P G Najpande who is known to take up public causes through the public interest litigation (PIL) route has sent a legal notice to Digvijay Singh through his lawyer, Amit Patel.
He said that the Congress General Secretary's statement against the Supreme Court's "caged parrot" comment about the CBI in connection with the coal scam amounts to "contempt of the apex court".
The organisation has demanded that Singh apologise about the issue before the media and publicly express regrets about his statement.
He said that the apex court's comments should be taken in the right spirit to reform the system.

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First Published: May 14 2013 | 10:05 PM IST

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