NEW DELHI: Favouring a robust debate in the media on issues pending in court, Supreme Court on Friday said the judiciary and the press must supplement each other as foundational pillars of democracy and held that a court should not tell the media to take down a report if it was not contemptuous.The court quashed…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has moved SC challenging summons issued to him by a trial court in UP in the VD Savarkar defamation case filed against him.A bench headed by Justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan is likely to hear Rahul’s plea against summons issued to him. Rahul, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha,…
NEW DEHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed social activist Medha Patkar‘s appeal against her conviction in a defamation case from 2001 and asked her to appear on April 8 when it will pronounce the sentence. Dismissing the appeal, additional sessions Judge (ASJ) Vishal Singh in Saket District Court said, “Appeal is dismissed and Conviction…
KOLKATA: Public interest outweighs the right to reputation when mass complaints are filed against a person in private, Calcutta high court has said.The HC, in a March 28 order, also quashed a defamation case against about 287 people who sent a mass complaint to the chief minister against the superintendent of Burdwan-based Satish Chandra Shilpa…
MUMBAI: Khar police issued a second notice to standup comedian Kunal Kamra on Wednesday following his non-appearance in connection with the defamation case filed against him for alluding to deputy CM Eknath Shinde as “gaddar” in his video. The fresh notice, received by Kamra’s father in Mumbai, asks for his “immediate attendance” at the police…
MUMBAI: Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra asked Khar police for a week’s time after the latter issued him a notice Monday night to appear in connection with the FIR lodged against him over his video alluding to state Dy CM Eknath Shinde as “gaddar”. A second FIR for defamation was filed at Dombivli police station on…
Delhi HC said Friday that the manner in which online encyclopaedia Wikipedia operates by allowing users to edit pages hosted by it is “dangerous”. The court was particularly concerned about open access editing feature, where users can add or delete information about a particular person or entity featured on a Wikipedia page. It was hearing…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal‘s plea challenging an order of the Gujarat high court refusing to quash summons in a defamation case over his remarks on PM Modi’s educational qualification.Noting that another SC bench earlier rejected a plea of AAP leader Sanjay Singh in the same case,…
NEW DELHI: At a time when social media is being misused for posting and circulating fake and defamatory messages, Supreme Court sent a clear signal that one has to pay the price for indulging in such activity and directed ex-chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Firoz Bakht Ahmed, to publish an unconditional apology…
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court (HC) has directed the district judge of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad to investigate how two contradictory orders in a defamation case – one of them unsigned – were uploaded to the court’s website.“So far as conduct of the magistrate is concerned, the court finds that he was not careful. An unsigned,…
