Hyderabad, Oct. 15 -- A cooperative federation that won the contract to supply food to Telangana's residential welfare schools has threatened civil and criminal action against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader who questioned how it got the work.

NACOF India Ltd. has served a legal notice on Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) general secretary and former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer RS Praveen Kumar, demanding that he retract allegations he made at a press conference on Thursday, September 17, according to Deccan Chronicle.

The federation, formally the National Federation of Farmers' Procurement, Processing and Retailing Cooperatives of India Ltd., has given Praveen Kumar seven days to withdraw the allegations, delete related vide...