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Defamation – Defence Of Truth Must Extend To Entire Libel And Not Just A Part Of It : Bombay HC

/ by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment

                                                           While ruling on a very significant legal point pertaining to defamation, the Bombay High Court in the exercise of its criminal appellate jurisdiction in a recent, robust, rational and remarkable judgment titled Harish Kumar Garg V/s. The State of Maharashtra and Anr in Writ Petition No. 1798 of 2019 that was pronounced recently on April […]

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Law of Defamation, Newspaper Publication & Journalistic Improprieties

/ by Shivam Goel | Leave a Comment

Preface: Defamation means to take away or destroy the good fame or reputation; to speak evil of; to charge falsely or to asperse. According to Winfield, ‘defamation’ is the publication of statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally or which tends to make them shun or […]

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Examination of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act

/ by Sk Jahangir Ali | Leave a Comment

Technology changes the dimension of the society. Obscenity in electronic form, morphing  of images, defamation, text bullying, stalking, spamming, unsolicited emails, criminal intimidation, extortion, public mischief, insult, threat to cause injury have penetrated in this modern society with the help of cyber technology. Under this back drop the legislative body incorporated section 66 A under […]

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Media & Tort of Defamation

/ by Pratham Darad | Leave a Comment

Freedom of Media One of the paradoxes is that Freedom of the Media to which our Founding Fathers were greatly attached finds no mention in Part III of our Constitution which guarantees certain fundamental rights. There is no specific guarantee of Freedom of the Media as in the Constitutions of other countries. In the course […]

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TRIAL BY MEDIA-“a legal dilemma”

/ by Raj Prashar | Leave a Comment

RAJ PRASHAR Introduction The media is the gatekeeper and watch dog of the society. The media acts as multifaceted institution with multiple activities. It takes the message simultaneously from all the parties involved and builds the opinion on an issue,with definitely threatens the establishment from violating rights with the growth of the number of news […]

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