Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Repetition of libel is an offence and repeater cannot take shelter behind plea that he had merely repeated what was said by another...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 500, Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, Section 7 -- Defamation - Determination of publisher - Presumption contained in Act of 1867 applies only in absence of evidence - Where accused admits publication of news item, recourse cannot be taken to presumption contained in Act of 1867...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 500 -- Defamation - Calling a person Gunda spreading Gundaraj, being a member of Shallow Theater People, without any justification, indicates intention to harm reputation of that person - Intention can be inferred from circumstances of case and no direct evidence of the same can be led...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - When imputation concerning reputation of a person is made without justification, it can lead to inference that publication was with intent to harm reputation of such person...........
Family Courts Act, 1984, Section 7 -- Jurisdiction of Family Court - Petition seeking damages for defamation by wife against husband without any other accompanying relief is not maintainable before Family Court...........
Defamation -- Essentials are : (a) Statement must be defamatory; (b) Said statement must refer to plaintiff; (c) Statement must be published...........
Defamation -- Suit for damages for publishing defamatory statement - Statement that husband is going to marry for the second time during subsistence of first marriage amounts to general damages and is actionable per se...........
Defamation -- According to law of Torts, defamation is injury to reputation of a person - If a person injures the reputation of another he does so at his own risk, as in the case of an interference with the property...........
Defamation -- Defamatory statement is one which tends to injure reputation of plaintiff - Defamation is publication of a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally, or which tends to make them shun or avoid that person...........
Defamation -- Whether a statement is defamatory or not depends upon how right thinking members of society are likely to take it - Standard to be applied is that of a right-minded citizen, a man of fair average intelligence and not that of a special class of persons whose values are not shared or approved by fair minded members of society generally...........
