{"id":50294,"date":"2017-10-25T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T04:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=50294"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T04:55:41","slug":"jay-shah-defamation-case-court-issues-summonses-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jay-shah-defamation-case-court-issues-summonses-wire","title":{"rendered":"Jay Shah defamation case: Court issues summonses to The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_divstory\" class=\"fullstorydivcommentin\">\n<div class=\"fullstorydivstory\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_50295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jay-shah-defamation-case-court-issues-summonses-wire\/jay-shah\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?fit=650%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,400\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jay-shah\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?fit=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?fit=640%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-50295 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jay Shah defamation case: Court issues summonses to The Wire\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/jay-shah.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Shah defamation case: Court issues summonses to The Wire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"pstory\" class=\"fulstorytext\">An Ahmedabad court today issued summonses to respondents in the criminal defamation case filed by BJP chief Amit Shah&#8217;s son against news portal &#8216;The Wire&#8217; over a report that claimed the turnover of his firm grew exponentially after the party came to power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S K Gadhvi issued summonses to journalist Rohini Singh, five editors and the non-profit company that publishes The Wire. The summonses are returnable by November 13.<\/p>\n<p>The metropolitan court issued summonses after it prima facie found that a case of defamation punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both under section 500 of IPC was made out against all the seven respondents.<\/p>\n<p>The order was issued after considering the depositions of three witnesses, including Jay Amit Shah, as well as documentary evidences produced by his lawyer S V Raju.<\/p>\n<p>Making his submissions today, Raju said, &#8220;The article was not published in good faith and was aimed at tarnishing the reputation of his client&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Before issuing summonses, the court conducted an inquiry into the complaint under CrPC section 202 to ascertain whether there was sufficient ground for proceeding against the respondents.<\/p>\n<p>In his application, Shah prayed for criminal action against the respondents for &#8220;defaming and tarnishing&#8221; his reputation by publishing an article, which was &#8220;scandalous, frivolous, misleading, derogatory, libelous and consisting of several defamatory statements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The seven respondents in the case are the author of the article Rohini Singh, founding editors of the news portal Siddarth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia and M K Venu, managing editor Monobina Gupta, public editor Pamela Philipose and the Foundation for Independent Journalism, the non-profit company that publishes &#8216;The Wire&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been filed under IPC sections 500 (defamation), 109 (abetment), 39 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy).<\/p>\n<p>Two businessmen- Jaimin Shah and Rajiv Shah- who appeared as witnesses, said they had received the article through WhatsApp and informed Jay Shah about it after realising that it &#8220;hurt&#8221; his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing as a witness, Jay Shah also told the court that his friends and well-wishers told him that the article dented his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer Raju submitted before the court that the purpose of the article was not to give a bonafide account of the company or his client but to defame him keeping the state Assembly elections in mind.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was &#8220;something fishy about the article&#8221; as it was &#8220;published hurriedly to make it an issue for the elections&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In his complaint, Shah said that the accused conspired to get a &#8220;fabricated, reworded, and edited version of the defamatory article to be published in place of the original version.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raju told the court that Shah was given &#8220;unreasonable&#8221; time to respond to a questionnaire and claimed no further inquiry based on the response was made.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant said a &#8220;predetermined conspiracy&#8221; was hatched to defame him.<\/p>\n<p>The Wire had claimed in its report that Temple Enterprise Pvt. 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