Bhopali said he was yet to receive the notice, “but once I get it I will appear in court and talk only mohabbat ki baate”. Bhopali said he was yet to receive the notice, “but once I get it I will appear in court and talk only mohabbat ki baate”. An Urdu poet has been issued a summon in connection with a criminal defamation suit filed against him by another poet. Mehdi claimed that Bhopali not only defamed her, but also violated her dignity by referring to the colour of her undergarments in public. Countering the poet, Mehdi said a government official, responding to her RTI application, had conveyed to her that no such complaint from Bhopali had been received.

Source: Indian Express January 22, 2017 22:51 UTC