Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Ernakulam district secretary C.N. Mohanan has denied all allegations against him and rejected the demand for a compensation of ₹2.5 crore in a legal notice issued to him by KMNP Law, a law firm of which Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan is a partner.
The law firm had shot off the legal notice for civil and criminal defamation against Mr. Mohanan in August for allegedly making “highly malicious and wilfully defamatory statements” about it during a press conference on August 15, 2023.
The reply notice dated September 11 filed through lawyer C.K. Sasi of the Delhi-based law firm CK & Tripathi Associates said that the legal notice was based on an erroneous premise that Mr. Mohanan had raised allegations against the law firm in his press conference. He had only demanded a comprehensive investigation by an appropriate agency about the false statements made by Mr. Kuzhalnadan in his declaration before the Election Commission and financial irregularities evident from the said declaration, the reply said.
