Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Necessary ingredients are : (i) Making or publishing any imputation concerning any person; (ii) such imputation must have been made by (a) words either spoken or intended to be read ; or (b) signs; or (c) visible representation. (iii) Such imputation must have been made with intention of harming or knowing or having..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Complaint to authorities about public servant that he has purchased land without intimation to the department - Enquiry revealed that complaints were false - No offence of defamation is made out - Sole purpose of making complaints was to bring to the notice of authorities the factual position which they had gathered..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499 -- Defamation - Intention to cause harm is the very foundation of the offence - It can only be when the imputations are made public - Maker of the imputations without publication is not liable under S.499 IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499 -- Public servant - Complaint to authorities - Complaints found to be false - Sending of complaints to authorities does not amount to publication - Offence of defamation not made out...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- General remarks made by Authority against competence of subordinate - Does not amount to defamation...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Action for defamation is maintainable only by the person who is defamed and not by his friends, relatives and family members...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 500 -- Defamation - Abattoir of human kidneys - News item against a renowned hospital - Held, news item is defamatory and Director of Hospital has locus standi to file complaint in this regard...........
Defamation -- Good faith - Before making an imputation on another the author must first make an enquiry into the factum of the imputation which he proposes to make - Enquiry should not be a make believe show - Enquiry should be of such a depth as a reasonable and prudent man would make with the genuine intention in knowing the real truth of the imputation which is up in..........
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Section 2(c) -- Criminal contempt - Telegraphic communication to Chief Justice of India by Contemner, an Advocate, to step down alleging that CJI falsifying his date of birth usurped CJI post and threatening to file criminal complaint and in fact filed criminal complaint under Ss.420, 406, 466, 468 and 471 - Suo motu contempt proceedings by..........
Defamation -- Report of proceedings in Court - The newspaper reports are privileged if published contemporaneously - The report need not be a verbatim one...........
