defamation

New Delhi, March 13 The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the status quo in a defamation case filed against BJP leader Koustav Bagchi, who is accused of sharing excerpts from a book on social media that contains allegations about the alleged private life of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...

New Delhi, March 12 A private tutor in north Delhi's Burari is alleged to have sexually assaulted three minor students over nearly two years, threatening them with dire consequences, including circulating AI-generated obscene images and harming their family members if they spoke about the abuse...

Mumbai, March 12 – Veteran playback singer Kumar Sanu has secured significant interim relief in the defamation case he filed. The court has passed an important order granting interim protection to the singer’s ex-wife, along with digital platforms Google and Meta, as well as unidentified parties...

Singapore, March 11 A Singapore court on Wednesday charged an Indian national with defaming a senior minister and attempting to promote ill feelings between racial groups.Jay Ish'haq Rajoo, 59, is accused of defaming senior minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also a former prime minister, in a...

Balrampur (UP), March 9 A cleric from Bihar has been booked for allegedly making objectionable remarks about Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's mother, police said on Monday.An FIR was registered against Maulana Abdul Salim on March 7 at the Nagar Kotwali police station in Balrampur based on a...

Kannur (Kerala), March 7 A case has been registered against a man for allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "traitor" in a social media post in Sreekandapuram, police said on Saturday.According to police, the case was registered against Rajan C Kottoor, a resident of Kottoor, on...

Balrampur (UP), February 26 The local correspondent of a Lucknow-based daily newspaper was arrested and sent to jail for publishing misleading reports against the chief medical officer and other staff of a hospital here, officials said on Thursday.According to police, the action was taken...

Mumbai, February 26 A sessions court here on Thursday allowed the revision application of Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, acquitting him in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya's wife, Medha Somaiya.The BJP leader's wife had claimed that the Rajya Sabha member made baseless and...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, February 24 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve on Tuesday demanded an investigation into a 23-acre plot of land in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, which he claimed had been "gifted" by its owner to Shiv Sena MP Sandipan Bhumre's driver much before the latter...

Bengaluru, February 22 – A fresh FIR has been registered against social activist Snehamayi Krishna for making defamatory statements against a woman.The Basaveshwara Nagar Police Station registered a First Information Report against Krishna on Saturday.According to the FIR, complainant...

Kolkata, February 21 – Former Director General of Police (DGP) of West Bengal, Rajeev Kumar, has sent a legal notice to Union Minister of State (MoS) for Education, Sukanta Majumdar, for making derogatory remarks against him, state government sources said on Saturday.In the legal notice, the...

Kolkata, February 21 – Event organizer Tanay Shastri filed a formal police complaint against Bengali actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty on Saturday, escalating a legal dispute that began with a ₹20 lakh defamation notice.Shastri, who recently spent 14 days in judicial...

Indore, February 18 A group of people allegedly beat up and humiliated a 30-year-old woman, a research scholar, in public after accusing her of being a "child lifter" in Indore, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place within the jurisdiction of the MIG police station on Tuesday. A...

Mumbai, February 17 A sessions court here on Tuesday reserved its order on a revision application filed by Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut against his conviction by a magistrate in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya's wife, Medha Somaiya.Raut was present in the court as the...

New Delhi, February 13 Heritage Foods strongly refuted allegations linking it to the controversial ghee supply to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam between 2014 and 2019, calling the claims baseless and defamatory and threatening legal action against those spreading what it termed "malicious lies"...

Mumbai, February 13 The Bombay High Court has restrained actor-producer Vidnyan Mane from making defamatory remarks against composer Palash Muchhal, noting his comments regarding an incident that occurred before the latter's scheduled wedding to cricketer Smriti Mandhana were "insinuating and...

Guwahati, February 12 A court in Guwahati has restrained Congress leaders Gaurav Gogoi, Bhupesh Baghel, and Jitendra Singh from making "defamatory statements" against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has filed a defamation case worth Rs 500 crore.After hearing the petitioner's...

Guwahati, February 12 A court in Guwahati has restrained Congress leaders Gaurav Gogoi, Bhupesh Baghel, and Jitendra Singh from making "defamatory statements" against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has filed a defamation case against them worth Rs 500 crore, until they appear in...

New Delhi, February 11 The Supreme Court on Wednesday reprimanded a female lawyer for a "derogatory" Facebook post targeting another woman who had accused Kerala Congress MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil of rape."As a woman, what kind of comments have you made about other women… If it were a man who...

Mumbai, February 10 A court has directed YouTuber Ajey Nagar, popularly known as CarryMinati, to refrain from creating "defamatory, vulgar, and abusive" content about filmmaker Karan Johar.It has also asked social media platforms to remove Nagar's existing videos targeting the filmmaker...