Hi,
My brother has sent me a legal notice u/s 500 IPC for defaming him. He alleges that I have spread rumors about him for having a veneral disease which has harmed his reputation in the eyes of his friends and family. He has sent this notice to put pressure on me and my parents to handover some property to him. He has been disowned and disinherited by my parents through a family settlement deed and which was executed between them a few years ago in which they paid him a huge sum of money and even gave a notice in newspaper for disowning him. In the notice he has sent me, there is no mention of how/ when/ through whom I have defamed him. He says that he will get witnesses who will give affidavits and thus prove the defamation charge. I have no idea whether he has any such disease or not as this is the first time I have heard about it through this notice and I have not even been in contact with him for so many years. Please advice how he can prove this defamation and what should I do in my defence?
thanks