Arrest warrant issued against Tharoor over 1989 novel

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The additional chief judicial magistrate’s court here issued an arrest warrant against MP Shashi

Tharoor

after he failed to appear in court on Saturday in connection with a defamation case related to a book by him that was published 30 years ago.


The court had earlier issued summons to Tharoor asking him to appear in person, or through a lawyer, for a hearing in a defamation case filed by a BJP supporter, Sandhya Sreekumar. Sreekumar has accused Tharoor of defaming

Nair

women in his book ‘

The Great Indian Novel

’, first published in 1989.

The MP’s office claimed the summons received by him did not mention any date and that it had been brought to the notice of the court, which had agreed to serve a fresh notice.