Manmohan Singh, J.

1. The plaintiff has filed the abovementioned suit for permanent injunction and damages against six defendants, namely, (i) The Indian Express Ltd. through Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, (ii) Mr. Maneesh Chibber, Reporter, The Indian Express Ltd., (iii) Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd., The Managing Director & The Editor-in-Chief of ‘Times Now’, (iv) Global Broadcast News (GBN) through Managing Director, Editor-in-Chief of ‘CNN-IBN’ and Turner International through Managing Director, (v) Ms. Intern through defendant No.2, and (vi) Union of India through the Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

2. The plaintiff has prayed for the relief of permanent injunction against the defendant Nos.1 to 5, its associates, sister concerns, its agents, representatives, correspondents, officers, employees and/or any other person, entity, in print or electronic media or via internet or otherwise from publishing, republishing, carrying out any further reports or articles or any other matter telecasts or repeat telecasts or programs, or debates or any discussion or reporting of any kind, directly or indirectly, pertaining to the purported complaint dated 30t