JUDGMENT

Mukta Gupta, J. - Ia 2046/2018, I.A. 2048/2018, I.A. 2091/2018 & I.A. 2092/2018 (under Order VII Rule 11 CPC filed by D1 & D2, D3, D4 and D5 respectively)

1. By these applications the defendant No.1 & 2, defendant No.3, defendant No.4 and defendant No.5 as also on behalf of the remaining defendants except 12 and 13 seek rejection of the plaint on the plea that the suit is barred by limitation. It may be noted that the plaintiff has given up defendant No.12 during the course of hearing and defendant No.13 is the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting against which no relief has been sought.

2. Learned counsel for the defendants No. 1 to 11 states that even if no application is filed on behalf of defendant No.6 to 11 for rejection of the plaint on the ground as noted above, the same being a legal plea is required to be looked into by this Court in the first instance. According to learned counsel for the defendants No. 1 to 11, as per the own showing of the plaintiff the alleged slanderous telecast by defendant No.1 was on 29th July, 2006 till 31st July, 2006 and thus the cause of action having arisen on the said dates, the present suit filed by the plaintiff on 20th Decembe