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2018 Supreme(Del) 2681

S.RAVINDRA BHAT, A.K.CHAWLA
PUSHP SHARMA – Appellant
Versus
D. B. CORP. LTD. – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Sh. Prashant Bhushan with Sh. Amit Agrawal and Sh. Satyajit Sarna, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Sh. Sajan Poovayya and Sh. Neeraj Malhotra, Sr. Advocates with Sh. Biju Mattam, Ms. Aastha Chawla, Ms. Ankita Bafna, Sh. Priyadarshi Banerjee and Sh. Pratibhanu. S. Kharola, Advocates.

JUDGMENT :

S. RAVINDRA BHAT, J.

1. These two appeals are by defendants, in a suit for permanent injunction. The plaintiff in the suit, which publishes the Dainik Bhaskar group of newspapers and periodicals (hereafter “DB group” or “the plaintiffs” variously, complained of attempt at defamation in what they term to be false news and information and sought permanent injunction against the defendants from publishing it in any manner. The impugned order granted the injunction, ex parte.

2. The impugned order, which granted ex parte temporary injunction for the duration of the suit, is as follows:

“Learned senior counsel for the plaintiff argues that telecommunications conversations between persons since in many cases, and was in this case, without any intention necessarily for the same to be a correct position in fact, the defendants cannot rely upon the same as if it was the only and the correct intention of the persons with whom the defendant no. 1 and its agents had with the persons stated in the e-mail dated 10.5.2018. It is also argued that essentially either the stand of the defendants will be of fake news being generated or news generated which would reflect a particular ideology wh








































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