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Obhan & Associates
On March 22, 2024, a 3 (three) judge bench of the Supreme Court passed an order1 reiterating the importance of freedom of speech and expression...
Obhan & Associates
In a recent Delhi High Court judgement, the Court laid the foundational stone on the jurisprudence of retweeting and whether it amounts to ‘publication' for the offence...
Obhan & Associates
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court ("J&K&L Court") in its recent order in Pritam Chand v Dr. Kamal Saini (CRMC No. 758/2017), stated that the press must refrain from publishing...
Khurana and Khurana
The article elucidates the effect and reaches of media on the lives of the people. It states how misrepresentation or wrong information by the media can cause irreversible harm to the accused and their lives permanently.
Obhan & Associates
In a recent judgement, M/S Iveco Magirus Brandschutztechnik Gmbh vs. Nirmal Kishore Bhartiya & Anr.1, the Supreme Court held that nothing prevents the Magistrate from dismissing a defamation complaint ...
Dentons Link Legal
The Government of India has recently introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha to replace laws which form the backbone of criminal jurisprudence in India viz., Indian Penal Code, 1860...
Khurana and Khurana
Defamation is concerned with protecting an individual's reputation from falsehoods spread through media and entertainment. The ability to seamlessly disseminate information...
Phoenix Legal
At all levels of society in a nation, be it national, regional or local, the press can be said to be the watchdog of the public at large – one cannot deny the role the press plays as an educator...
Phoenix Legal
For defamation to be said to be done, an individual must have either created or disseminated content that is defamatory, i.e., that causes injury to a third party's reputation.
Obhan & Associates
Defamation is the act of intentionally injuring one's character by false and malicious words in such a manner that it lowers...
Obhan & Associates
Under Indian law, defamation is both a criminal (punishable with imprisonment) as well as civil offence (punishable through the award of damages).
HSA Advocates
WhatsApp has become an integral part of our daily communication and correspondence requirements.
Khurana and Khurana
Dissemination of e-newspapers on Telegram has raised a copyright debate under the steady gaze of the Delhi High Court. Because of CoVID-19 limitations coming into power, actual dispersion and house-to-house conveyance of papers got cruelly affected.
Vaish Associates Advocates
On February 25, 2021 the Press Information Bureau released some telling statistics to go along with the recently announced Information Technology Rules, 2021 by the Ministry of Information.
S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates
The High Court of Delhi vide its order dated July 30, 2020, granted an ad-interim injunction in a suit filed by Budweiser for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and commercial disparagement and dilution and tarnishment ...
King, Stubb & Kasiva
What does freedom of speech mean especially in a diverse country like India? Well, by definition, Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India says that all citizens have the right to freedom of speech and expression.
Obhan & Associates
Criminal contempt has been recognized as the action of publishing any matter including by words, spoken or written.1
S&A Law Offices
The number of people accessing the internet has grown by leaps and bounds in India. In fact, India has the second highest number of internet users in the world.
Obhan & Associates
Modern technology has revolutionized how we disseminate and record information and its no doubt that this has led to an increase in the commercial exploitation of the private lives of public personalities and celebrities often hurting ...
Obhan & Associates
As a general rule, it is frowned upon to bring disrepute to a person. That general principle is integral enough for the law to be concerned with it. The Indian Penal Code ("Code") defines defamation as...
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