The policeman brother of the TV comedians Hardeep Singh Kohli and Sanjeev Kohli has been told to "put up or shut up" after he accused Glasgow City Council of waging a "racist" vendetta against his family.

The policeman brother of the TV comedians Hardeep Singh Kohli and Sanjeev Kohli has been told to "put up or shut up" after he accused Glasgow City Council of waging a "racist" vendetta against his family.

In a hard-hitting rebuttal of the accusations, licensing convener John McKenzie, said Randeep Kohli should remind himself of incidents in a flat owned by his family's firm that left three tenants hospitalised.

Mr McKenzie was speaking immediately after Mr Kohli failed to secure a three-year licence to rent out a West End flat following complaints from a resident, and just days after the landlord, the Metropolitan Police's highest-ranking Sikh officer, said the local authority had taken a "hard line" against his father's property-letting business because he is Asian.

The accusations have infuriated many within the authority, who have pointed out the litany of problems reported on many of the 100-plus Kohli properties over the years, and also the fact that many belong to the brothers and not their father.

They were reported to the Health and Safety Executive in 2005 after three tenants were poisoned by carbon monoxide in a flat in Hyndland, a situation described by the city council's House in Multiple Occupancy unit as "potentially fatal".

Warnings were issued over the state of other properties owned by the family.

Just three months ago, a Kohli flat underneath a GP's surgery went on fire due to faulty wiring, while in recent years Sanjeev, who plays Navid in Still Game, has had a licence for a rented flat suspended for failing to carry out repairs and, along with his father, has had licences for five flats refused.

Other properties owned by Hardeep, a regular on TV shows such as The One Show, have been described as "grubby and dirty" and substandard.

At yesterday's meeting, a number of objections were raised by neighbours, a councillor and community council against HMO licences for Kohli properties owned by Sanjeev and Randeep, also known as Raj.

All licences were granted, though Randeep was given a two-year as opposed to a three-year permit for one flat.

After the meeting Mr McKenzie said: "For him (Randeep) to say his father has been targeted is totally over the top. He obviously hasn't spoken to his father, who has enjoyed good relations with the committee and officials.

"Let's hope he puts up or shuts up.

"He said we were racist, yet three students were poisoned by carbon monoxide in a flat owned by Kohli Properties and needed hospital treatment.

"We get thousands of people before us every year of all backgrounds and deal with them fairly, as individuals.

"For him to say preferential treatment is given to particular groups for whatever reason or his family is targeted because of race is deeply insulting and just wrong."

In an interview at the weekend Randeep Kohli insisted race and his brothers' profile made the family a target.

He said: "Glasgow council takes a very hard line against my dad. Do I think it's racist? Yes, I do, because if dad was a white man, member of the Masonic lodge, member of the Rotary Club, played golf, it ain't going to happen."