The 'right to be forgotten' and right to dignity under Article 21 must be balanced against the freedom of the press. Upon an individual's exoneration from criminal proceedings, the continued digital dissemination of defamatory and unsubstantiated content may be restrained to prevent irreparable reputational harm.

Let summons of the suit and notice of the injunction application be issued to the defendants on filing PF, RC, AD, Speed Post, dasti, as well as through all approved electronic modes, returnable for 20.04.2026. Steps be taken within one week.

Ld. Counsel for the plaintiff has pressed for the ex-parte ad-interim relief.

ORDER

1. This order shall culminate the controversy, whether in the prevailing premise, the plaintiff is entitled to ad-interim exparte injunction against the defendants, under Order XXXIX Rule 1&2 read with Section 151 CPC, prayed as under:

2. Pass an ex-parte ad-interim injunction restraining the Defendants No. 1 to 3, their agents, employees, or any person acting on their behalf:

 from publishing, re-publishing or circulating any further content in relation to the Plaintiff and his family name-concerning the case of Sterling Biotech Limited and bank fraud;

 directing to de-index, de-list, and de-reference the URLs and content of the said articles as detailed in the plaint and such other links not known to the Plaintiff relating to the subject matter in issue from their respective website till the pendency and final disposal of the present suit: and

 direction to Defendant No. 1 and 2 to de-index, de-list, and de-reference the URLs and content of the said articles of the media houses as detailed in the plaint and such other links not known to the Plaintiff relating to the subject matter in issue from its search engine results, till the pendency and final disposal of the present suit.

3. Bereft of details, the factual matrix of the suit is that the present plaint is being instituted by Mr. Manoj Kesarichand Sandesara ("plaintiff herein") seeking damages, permanent and mandatory injunction to remove disparaging, defamatory and false content created by various media houses, intermediaries and searched upon and uploaded on the domain of Google LLC ("defendant no.1") about the plaintiff through various news channel from all its media outlets including TV channel, YouTube Channel Worldwide. The plaintiff is seeking to remove the malicious and palpably false content, which is directly damaging his fundamental rights of privacy and reputation. The Plaintiff belongs to one 'Sandesara' family who owned the Sterling Group of Companies, including but not limited to Sterling Biotech Limited. The Plaintiff has also been a director in Sterling Group of Companies namely Blue Mark Mercantile Limited and Navseema Properties Private Limited etc.

4. Sterling Biotech Ltd was pioneer in India to produce Gelatine as per USA and European standards, which opened the doors of western markets for Indian Pharmaceutical companies. The first plant was set up by Sterling Biotech Ltd (SBL) in 1997 and thereafter, SBL set up plants to manufacture anti-cancer drugs, which led to huge reduction of prices of anti-cancer drugs in India. It is averred, that SBL Group has been availing bank credit facilities from the last 25 years and has set up various high-tech projects with a credible track record. It is further voiced, that SBL has paid off dividends as high as 50% to its shareholders since its incorporation till 2010.

5. It is contended further, that all the major accounts of the group became NPA by the end of financial year 2011-12 which are based upon various external factors beyond its control like regulatory changes, project overrun however, it remains undisputed that the group has been repaying the loan amount for last several years after credit facilities were extended to it. The lenders have granted no new additional financial facilities to SBL