Letters: Why commit hara-kiri?

Defamation cases filed against news portal The Wire and others by Amit Shah's son Jay Shah will likely not end the political slugfest over his firm recording a turnover of Rs 80 cr in just a year

That defamation cases have been filed against news portal The Wire and others by Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will likely not end the political slugfest over his firm recording a turnover from a paltry Rs 50,000 to Rs 80 crore in just a year.

That this astronomical revenue jump coincided more or less with Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister and Amit Shah taking the reins of the Bharatiya Janata Party gives the Opposition enough fodder to demand an independent probe. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s defence of Jay Shah’s private business dealings was on untenable grounds. He should have confined