Extract of the E-mail Notice sent to gaurav.sabnis@gmail.com from http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2005/10/im-disconnecting-my-cable-connection.html
From: Legal Cell, IIPM
Date: Oct 4, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Notarized first notice of legal summons
To: gaurav.sabnis@gmail.com
Cc: legal@iipm.edu
First Notice of legal summons to you
Warning: This email has been judicially notarized and has been tagged to validate receipt and response
Notice: IIPM/DZI1/2005/44
Date: 4th October 2005
Subject: False articles released by you on IIPM on blogspot.com (reference blogger.com)
I am the head of the legal and compliance counsel at The Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) New Delhi, India.
This notice is with respect to your releasing totally false articles about IIPM on the website blogspot.com (reference blogger.com) that has your clear reference and that has been released by you with proven deliberate and fraudulent intentions to harm the image of IIPM and related businesses. The articles have caused unfathomable damage to the reputation of IIPM and to its various operational areas. The articles further have affected innumerable future operations of IIPM. We have legally notarized and logged all the releases and are sending you this email to you as the first notice of proposed legal, judicial and criminal action against you that has already been approved & cleared by the Post Graduate Fellow Programme committee at IIPM. Even though the damage caused by your deliberate and fraudulent intentions cannot be calculated, the proposed filing would involve an immediate damage claim from you of Rs.125 Crores; apart from other various losses (including, but not restricted to opportunity losses, sales losses, legal costs and associated expenses). Corollary claims and subsequent parallel criminal and civil actions are being notified further on.
We are also providing your details to respective national and regional police authorities for undertaking and implementing immediate arrest warrants against you. We are also providing your details to various corporations within India and abroad to inform them about the judicial, legal and police action against you; thus ensuring that your details are well documented.
However, in case you undertake the following actions immediately, and provide evidence of such actions being completed by October 8th 2005, we shall formally withhold the abovementioned proceedings against you:
1. Immediately remove all articles related to IIPM from all domains under your purview, including but not restricted to the domains blogspot.com and blogger.com.
2. Immediately notify all your affiliate partners and other relevant websites to remove any links to any news of IIPM that they have received from you. You have to also ensure that these websites follow instructions as you would be held responsible for any continued display of the abovementioned item in question and future unapproved references to IIPM of any kind in any type of a media vehicle.
3. Immediately release an apology notice (after getting the text approved from our offices) on all domains under your authority that clearly mentions that you had mistakenly released the article and are withdrawing the same unconditionally. The same should also be sent to us.
4. Refrain in the future from releasing any news item containing IIPM's reference without the prior explicit written approval of IIPM.
Be warned, your telephone numbers, physical addresses thereon, login details, network access mechanisms have all been documented, notarized and legally ratified through google and blogspot.com, thus ensuring that any arrest warrants can be served and implemented on you within one day.
Your formal response shall be expected by the 12 noon (Indian Standard Time) of 6th October 2005 ; failing which, we shall proceed with the parallel arrest proceedings against you.
Regards,
A.Saxena
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President, Legal and Compliance Cell
The Indian Institute of Planning & Management
Level 0, IIPM Tower 1
B-27, Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi - 110016, India
Phone: +91-11-51799900; Fax: +91-11-51799911
Email: legal@iipm.edu