JUDGMENT - H.L. GOKHALE, J.:---Plaintiff is a film actress of some standing. Defendant No. 1 is a Publishing House, defendant No. 2 is its Director and 3rd defendant is the Editor of a film journal brought out by the 1st defendant under the name of "Stardust" and defendant No. 4 is one of the contributors and reporters of that Journal. The present suit makes a grievance that three articles published in November and December 2000 and January 2001 Issues of this Journal, which are annexed at Exhibits A, B, and C to the plaint, are per-se defamatory, false and malicious to the plaintiff's character. Hence, this suit is filed to seek damages of Rs. 20 crores. The plaintiff has also taken out a Notice of Motion seeking to restrain the defendants from in any way or manner carrying out defamatory allegations and imputations in future against the defendants.

2. Mr. Maneshinde has appeared for the plaintiff and has drawn my attention to the statements made in the three articles. These statements are quoted in paragraph 4 of the plaint. They are extracts from the three articles which are annexed as Exhibits A, B and C to the plaint. Prior thereto it is stated in paras 3 and 4 of the plaint th

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