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 Page 2 of 6

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