{"id":33527,"date":"2014-05-31T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33527"},"modified":"2014-05-31T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T05:24:56","slug":"hc-stays-action-sunita-narain-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-stays-action-sunita-narain-defamation","title":{"rendered":"HC stays action against Sunita Narain in defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/hc-stays-action-sunita-narain-defamation\/sunita-narain\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33528\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-stays-action-sunita-narain-defamation\/sunita-narain\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sunita narain\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sunita narain\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/sunita-narain.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Suspending an order of a trial court at Vapi in a defamation case against environmental activist Sunita Narain, the Gujarat High Court gave relief to her on Friday and stayed proceedings against her as well as four of her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Justice S G Shah has stayed the defamation proceedings as well as the non-bailable warrant issued by a trial court at Vapi until the next hearing on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Narain, a Padmashri awardee, has sought to quash proceedings and a non-bailable warrant against her and her colleagues Vibha Varshney, Arnab Pratim Dutta, Sanjeev Kumar Kanchan and Ankur Paliwal, issued by the additional judicial magistrate in Vapi on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>Narain had to move the Gujarat High Court after a defamation complaint filed by a Vapi-based company called United Phosphorus Limited (UPL) under the Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code against Narain, who is the editor and publisher of the magazine &#8216;Down to Earth&#8217; and others, about an article published in it.<\/p>\n<p>The company alleged that an article published in the magazine, titled &#8216;Dirty For Ever&#8217;, misrepresented facts and damaged its reputation. UPL had also sought action against the NGO &#8216;Society for Environmental Communication&#8217;, which publishes the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on the complaint, the Vapi court had issued a non-bailable warrant and also directed Ambedkarnagar police station of New Delhi to produce the accused on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking quashing of the order, Narain&#8217;s advocate contended that in that alleged defamatory article they did not mention any company&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not published the names of any company. The complaint has been filed with malafide intention,&#8221; Advocate Bomi Sethna submitted before the Gujarat High Court today.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners further submitted that the Vapi based court erred in issuing the non bailable warrant against Narain and four of her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the accused do not remain present (as per the court&#8217;s orders), then bailable warrant could be directed, but the trial court had directly issued a non-bailable warrant,&#8221; advocate Sethna said.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspending an order of a trial court at Vapi in a defamation case against environmental activist Sunita Narain, the Gujarat High Court gave relief to her on Friday and stayed proceedings against her as well as four of her colleagues. 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