Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamatory statement in pleadings - It is offence of defamation and not offence of giving false evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 202 -- `Impotent person' - Use of such words in pleadings constitute offence of defamation though such words used with the words `and the child was born by medical ovulation period technique as was suggested by the gynecologist' - Use of such words in a different sense can be proved during..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 500, 501 -- Defamation - Filing of false case - Quashing of proceedings - Prima facie case made out against accused - Truthfulness of allegations cannot be tested in a petition u/s 482 Cr.P.C. and even trial Court cannot embark into an enquiry regarding authenticity of allegation which is the subject matter of trial - Trial Court taking..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 199 -- Prosecution for defamation - Complaint u/s 199 Cr.P.C is required to be filed in a Court of Sessions that alone is vested with jurisdiction to hear and try alleged offence and even without case being committed to said Court by a subordinate Court - S.199(2) Cr.P.C. r/w S.199(4) Cr.P.C. therefore, envisages a departure from..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 199(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Prosecution for defamation - Complaint against accused filed by Public prosecutor on the very same day on which sanction for prosecution was accorded - Haste with which complaint was filed prima facie indicates that public prosecutor may not have applied his mind to materials placed..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 199(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Prosecution for defamation - Alleged defamatory statements have no reasonable nexus with discharge of public duties by or office of Hon'ble Chief Minister - Remedy u/s 199(2) Cr.P.C and S.199(4) Cr.P.C thus, not available - More so, Public Prosecutor admitted that he filed the..........
Defamation -- Definition of offence of defamation u/s 499 IPC is not applicable to civil wrong - However, ingredients of defamation under said Section can be applied to civil wrongs...........
Defamation -- May contain either slander (words spoken) or libel (written)...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 7, Rule 11(a) -- Rejection of plaint - Non-disclosure of cause of action - Suit for damages for defamation - Issuance of notice by counsel on behalf of his client to another counsel or party does not constitute defamation as there is no publication of defamatory material - In suit for damages, cause of action will arise only..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499 -- Defamation - Defamatory speech made against general community of lawyers and not against an identifiable or determinate class of individuals - By merely stating that such lawyers form a collection of persons or forms a determinate group of lawyers, it cannot be said that they form a collection of persons within meaning of S.499..........
