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 Backing out [1]

After slapping a legal notice on environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, seeking damages worth Rs 100 crore (approximately us $25 million) for an article they had written in Business Standard on the threats posed to public health by the current trend towards dieselisation of the private automobile fleet, telco 's lawyers have now written to them saying "there is no question of any proceeding against you'.

The letter from telco 's lawyers says that the company was not offended by the article, but by the photograph which had been published together with the article singling out telco 's vehicles just below the sensational caption

Publication Date: 
14/07/1999
Down to Earth [2]
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Public Interest Litigation (PIL) [3], Diesel [4], Tata Motors [5], Legislation [6], CSE [7], Vehicles [8]
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