Defamation and A Vital Legal Issue

 Defamation and A Vital Legal Issue

An important issue was decided by Hon'ble Gauhati High Court on 28 March 2017. 

It has been commented at page 12 of Ghisalal Agarwala v State of Assam [2017] GCtR 1143 (Gauhati) thus : - 

"It is a settled position of law that except the Editor, Printer and Publisher of a newspaper no other person can be fastened with the criminal liability unless specific averment/allegation is made out in the complaint petition.”

Kindly note that full text (PDF) Copies of Judgments of Hon'ble Gauhati High Court can be downloaded absolutely free of cost from the following link : - 

https://ghconline.gov.in/index.php/judgments-up-to-2017/ 

or 

https://ghconline.gov.in/JDMTMar17.pdf

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Vishal

Delhi

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