Zakir Naik slaps Arnab Goswami with Rs 500-crore defamation notice for running ‘hate campaign’

Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, has slapped a Rs 500-crore defamation case against Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami for running a “hate campaign” and “media trial” against him. In the notice, issued by Naik’s lawyer Mubin Solkar, the preacher has also levelled a few other charges against the channel including “creating enmity and hatred between religious communities” and hurting the “religious sentiments” of Naik and the Muslim community through Goswami’s statements on the channel.

“Moreover you have also hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslim community which reveres (Naik) and holds him in high esteem,” the notice goes on to say.

Firstpost has reviewed a copy of the notice.

Here is a Copy of the Notice Issued by Naik