Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha on Thursday 8 August, apologised to actor-politician Prakash Raj for a post on social media in 2017. Prakash Raj had filed a defamation case against Simha after the BJP MP did not respond to his legal notice asking that he apologise and withdraw the post.
“I had posted a derogatory article against u n your family on 2 & 3rd October 2017. However I understand these were unwarranted n hurtful. Therefore, I unequivocally withdraw n regret Twitter n FB post,” Pratap Simha wrote on Twitter on Thursday.