Is Accusing Someone of AIDS & Begging Defamation in India?

The defendant conveys by P 1 that the plaintiff was so slow in paying his debt that it was necessary to get someone to urge him to do so. The language reasonably implies a culpable refusal to repay money borrowed. ... Stress is laid on the cir- distance that the plaintiff did not claim in reconvention damages for defamation in the action on the note. ... Conse­quences resulting from such words is different from the meaning of words: and the....

High Court Malaya Kuala Lumpur

Defamation Act 1957 (the Act) provides that, in a libel case where multiple accusations are made against someone, the person being sued (the Defendant) can still successfully argue that what they said was justified even if they cannot prove every single accusation. ... A qualified privilege occasion is an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral to make it to th....

High Court Malaya Shah Alam

A qualified privilege occasion is an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral to make it to the person to whom it is made, and the person to whom it is so made has a corresponding interest or duty to receive it. ... [113] The statements contained accusations far beyond what was supposedly investigated, such as branding the Plaintiff as a person lacking moral val....

High Court Malaya Shah Alam

A qualified privilege occasion is an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral to make it to the person to whom it is made, and the person to whom it is so made has a corresponding interest or duty to receive it. ... [113] The statements contained accusations far beyond what was supposedly investigated, such as branding the Plaintiff as a person lacking moral val....

High Court Malaya Shah Alam

A qualified privilege occasion is an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral to make it to the person to whom it is made, and the person to whom it is so made has a corresponding interest or duty to receive it. ... The statements also described her as someone with a problematic attitude, questionable credibility, and recommended that she be shunned and isolated.....

2022 Supreme(US)(ca9) 367

REVEAL SUMMARY* California’s Anti-SLAPP Statute The panel affirmed the district court’s order granting the Reporters with the Center for Investigative Reporting (“CIR”)’s anti-SLAPP motion to strike a complaint alleging defamation under ... REVEAL money [Planet Aid] raises is spent on charity.” Several other publications reported that the American Institute of Philanthropy and the Better Bu....

2024 0 Supreme(P&H) 515

It is argued that the present FIR has been lodged at the instance of Sh.Vinod Kumar, SP, Charkhi Dadri alleging defamation of police for exercising fundamental right envisaged under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution vis-à-vis police atrocities including fake encounter and custodial torture and the ... If someone is poor let him get good education in Govt. Schools, but reservation system needs to be stopped. I need justice and a #HL_START....

High Court Malaya Johor Bahru

JUDGMENT Noradura Hamzah JC: Introduction [1] The Plaintiff sues the Defendants for defamation arising from Facebook and WhatsApp postings in February 2020, alleging that the Defendants accused her of causing serious ... The law requires only that the words be communicated to someone other than the plaintiff. A one-to-one message therefore constitutes publication, although its private nature may mitigate the extent of damage. ... In the com....

High Court Malaya Shah Alam

In our judgment, any form of advantage gained by a defendant in a defamation case suffices. It need not produce an immediate profit in money terms as happened in Dato Musa Hitam v. SH Alattas & Ors; [1991] 2 CLJ (Rep) 487 HC (refd). ... By publication is meant the making known of the defamatory matter, after it has been written, to some person other than the person of whom it is written. The uttering of a libel to the part....

2022 Supreme(Online)(MAD) 24156

In view of money transaction, the notice has been caused by the respondent/complainant calling upon the petitioners to pay the money. ... —Imputation made in good faith by person for protection of his or other's interests—It is not defamation to make an imputation on the character of another provided that the imputation be made in good faith for the protection of the interest of the person making it, or o....

2019 0 Supreme(J&K) 292

A person begging for alms for himself and someone begging for a cause for which he has a licence, are actually undertaking the same activity i.e., seeking alms for charity. 1. If someone who is poor is begging, they are asking people to give them food or money. Thus, the legislation itself permits such begging as for which a licence stands issued by the District Magistrate under Rule 3 of the Rules of 1964. There is no justification at all for the distinctio....

2013 0 Supreme(Gau) 796

According to Black Law Dictionary, the word 'aggrieved' is defined as "having suffered loss or injury; damnified. As per the statutory provision, person aggrieved can bring action for defamation. According to Oxford Dictionaries, the word "aggrieved" is defined as feeling resentment at having unfairly treated.

2013 0 Supreme(Gau) 794

According to Oxford Dictionaries, the word "aggrieved" is defined as feeling resentment at having unfairly treated. As per the statutory provision, person aggrieved can bring action for defamation. According to Black Law Dictionary, the word 'aggrieved' is defined as "having suffered loss or injury; damnified.

2013 0 Supreme(Guj) 420

Thereby it is clear that on account of illegal detention of petitioner under PASA Act, his reputation and estimation has lowered in the society, which affects the mental and intellectual character. There is also substance in the say of the petitioner that if respondents have taken care to the credential for social service rendered by him, which was otherwise not considered at all, before passing the detention order, the detaining authority would have not passed such order and, therefore, the d....

2011 0 Supreme(Mad) 4231

Act of defamation is defined under Section 499 Defamation as "Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by sings or by visible representations, makes of publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person is said, except in the cases hereinafter excepted, to defame that person. In order to constitute the offence for an act of defamation the person committ....