![]() ![]() The suit said the Dumraon royals were firm that they will not accept anything short of a full retraction of the original novel in English and an apology from Bhagat and the publishers. Vijay is the eldest son of Maharaja Bahadur Kamal Singh, a two-term Lok Sabha MP and the last ruler of Dumraon before its accession to the Indian union in 1952. It alleged that "express and implied references" that were "false and derogatory in nature" were made against Chandra Vijay's family in Bhagat's book. The suit was last year transferred to the trial court after the pecuniary jurisdiction of Delhi district courts was raised from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 2 crore. Chandra Vijay, a descendant of the erstwhile princely state of Dumraon in Bihar, had earlier filed the suit in the Delhi High Court seeking Rs 1 crore as damages from Bhagat. Garg has said the novel was first published in October 2014 and since then many copies have been sold. ![]()
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