petitioner herein will have opportunity to raise contentions before the learned Trial Court during the course of trial which will be decided as per law, including the issue as to whether for the purpose of trial case under Section 499 of IPC is made out or not. At this stage, there was sufficient material before the Court concerned to summon the petitioner under Section 499 of IPC. 91. It is for the Trial Court Judge to determine at a pre-summoning stage what is capable of being defamatory for the purpose of summoning. Whether the content has been proved to be defamatory or not is a matter of trial. CONCLUSION 92. At times, it is difficult to erase the reputational injury from public memory, as the tweets may be deleted but perceptions are difficult to be deleted from the minds of the community. 93. This Court, thus, for the purpose of adjudicating the present case, holds that retweeting a content, which is allegedly defamatory, on the Twitter account and projecting it to be as if his own views, will prima facie attract the liability under Section 499 of IPC, for the purpose of issuance of summons. 94. Therefore, this Court finds no infirmity with the impugned orders passed by the learned Trial Court as well as learned Sessions Court. 95. Accordingly, the present petition stands dismissed. 96. It is, however, clarified that the observations made hereinabove qua the present complaint case are solely for the purpose of deciding Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:05.02.2024 16:25:50 CRL.M.C. 6347/2019 Page 49 of 50

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