Manmohan, J.

I.A.No.13152/2017

1. Present application had been filed initially under Order XXXIX Rules 1 & 2 CPC read with Sections 94 and 151 CPC for issuance of a temporary injunction before the Civil Judge, Cachar, Silchar, Assam, but upon a transfer petition being allowed by the Apex Court the same has been renumbered as I.A.No.13152/2017 by the Registry of this Court.

2. The relevant facts of the present defamation case are that the plaintiff is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and is involved in running academic courses under the name and style of “The Indian Institute of Planning and Management”. Defendant nos.1 to 3 are the managing editor, editor, publisher and printer of the magazine, Caravan. Defendant no.4 is the author of the impugned article.

3. Plaintiff is aggrieved by the publication of the article “Sweet smell of success – How Arindam Chaudhuri made a fortune of the aspirations and insecurities of India’s middle classes”.

4. Learned counsel for the plaintiff states that the defendant-magazine carried a morphed image of Mr. Arindam Chaudhari, Dean, Centre for Advanced Studies of IIPM showing him as a magician/sooth sayer with int