contents of the said two articles, which were originally published on the
Defendant No.1’s digital/electronic portal www.thequint.com, have now
been picked up by another platform by the name www.newsdogapp.com
and the same are being attributed to Defendant No.1. The content on the said
app www.newsdogapp.com is identical to the articles, which were published
on the Defendant No.1’s website www.thequint.com and in fact, attributes
the source as being www.thequint.com. Printouts of the same have been
handed over to the Court and to ld. counsel for the Defendants.
6.
The matter was initially passed over in order to enable the Defendants
to seek instructions. Ld. counsel for the Defendants submits that the
impugned articles have already been taken down from the portal
www.thequint.com and whenever the Plaintiff has pointed out any other
digital/electronic platform or website where the said articles have been
reproduced, the Defendants have cooperated with the Plaintiff for pulling the
same down.
7.
The Defendants having been the original source of the said two
publications and having already pulled down the said articles pursuant to the
proceedings of this Court, the republication of the same, attributing it to any
of the Defendants, would not be permissible. The allegations having been
made as part of #MeToo campaign and the three individuals having chosen
to remain anonymous and the publisher of the articles having already agreed
to pull down the said two articles, further re-publication of the same is liable
to be restrained. The campaign also ought not to become an unbridled and
unending campaign against an individual with other electronic/digital portals
or platforms picking up the pulled down content through archived material.
The #MeToo campaign cannot become a `Sullying #UToo’ campaign
CS (OS) 642/2018
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