Kolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee sent a notice to MLA Madan Mitra on Tuesday over the latter’s alleged branding of Banerjee as a “criminal and murderer”. Sources close to Mitra said that the allegations were unfounded and he would answer the notice. The notice said, “You made several false, reckless, malicious and highly defamatory statements against my client (Abhishek Banerjee). You went to the extent of describing my client as a ‘criminal’, ‘murderer’, alleged that my client gets persons killed by paying money and/or engaging contract killers (’supari’), and further imputed that he possesses a criminal instinct. Each of these allegations is demonstrably false, fabricated, malicious, and entirely devoid of any factual foundation... You are well aware that each such defamatory statement made by you is absolutely false.”