2.
The Plaintiff claims that he is a well-known personality in the media
industry and he is currently the Managing Director of a media house. It is
his case that due to publication of the stories on Defendant No.1’s
digital/electronic platform www.quint.com, he underwent enormous torture
and personal grief due to the baseless allegations made against him. The
grievance of the Plaintiff was that he ought to have been given sufficient
notice prior to the publication of the impugned articles and by not doing so,
the defendants published one-sided accounts which resulted in tarnishment
of his reputation.
3.
The suit was listed on 14th December, 2018 on which date the Court
had directed that the said two articles would not be republished till the next
date. On 19th December, 2018, the Defendants had entered appearance and
had submitted that without prejudice to the Defendants’ rights, they would
pull down/ take down the two publications. The following order was then
passed.
“CS (OS) 642/2018 & LA. No.l 7161/2018 (u/o XXXIX R
1 & 2 CPC)
The present suit has been filed by the Plaintiff
seeking a permanent and mandatory injunction
restraining the Defendants from continuing to publish
two articles dated 12th October, 2018 and 31st October,
2018 on the website www.thequint.com.
The case of the Plaintiff is that two articles were
published against him on the basis of harassment
allegations claimed to have been received from
individuals as part of the '#Me Too' campaign.
The suit was listed on 14th December, 2018 on which
date the Defendants had entered appearance after
receiving an advance copy from the Plaintiff. On the
said date, the counsel for the Defendants sought time to
file a short affidavit explaining the position. The
CS (OS) 642/2018
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