RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J

1. The plaintiff claims Rs 25 lacs as damages for defamation by the libelous article written and published by the defendants in their magazine “Opportunities Today” of September, 2001. The said article is under the column “Student Alert” and is titled “Flights of Fancy Crash Courses or Crashing Hopes ?!?.” The article comments on the small/limited number of vacancies for the posts of flight purser, air hostess and cabin crew in the airlines industry and the large number applicants for the same. It proceeds to tell that there are over a dozen institutes offering various training programmes to entice students to pay between Rs 15000/- to Rs 20000/- with the hope of scores of vacancies awaiting them; the students are not told of the heavy odds against employment in the said industry and are enrolled with promises of jobs. After commenting generally on the dozen odd institutes, the impugned article comments in particular on “one of the Delhi based institutes” whose operations are at national level. The impugned article tells that the said institute advertises every two months in leading dailies of all metros in the country that there are over 150 vacancies of

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