WhiteHat Jr withdraws defamation suit against vocal critic

Edtech firm WhiteHat Jr and its founder Karan Bajaj have withdrawn the $2.6-million defamation suit they filed last November against Pradeep Poonia, a vocal critic of the company, Poonia told ET.

WhiteHat Jr, which is owned by edtech giant Byju’s, teaches coding to children. The company had sent the legal notice to Poonia last November for allegedly defaming it and infringing on its “registered and unregistered trademarks”.