JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Judges Summons filed under Order XIV Rule 8 of the Original Side Rules read with Order VII Rule 11 (a) of the Code of Civil Procedure to grant an order of rejection of the plaint in C.S.No.82 of 2019 filed by the 1st respondent / plaintiff.)

1. This application for rejecting the plaint has been filed by the 1st defendant in a suit filed by the plaintiff seeking damages from the defendants for the defamatory video put up in the YouTube and other social medias and for an injunction restraining the defendants, their men, agents etc., from releasing, circulating, publishing any video clippings or articles or giving press interviews and / or post any items, messages on social media containing any allegations as found in the videos that had been uploaded in the social media platform. The 1st respondent / plaintiff would set out the following in his pleadings which is extracted in brief hereunder.

2. The events that has compelled the 1st respondent / plaintiff to file the above suit was a video uploaded on YouTube and other social media platforms in which the applicant / 1st defendant is shown as interviewing one Sayan who is an accused in a pending criminal case. The ver