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What the #PriyaRamani-#MJAkbar case means

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#MJAkbar मानहानि मुकदमे में बरी हुई #PriyaRamani

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@[email protected] The matter posted tomorrow. If hearing doesn't take place tomorrow, to be taken up on March 17.

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@[email protected] Hearing adjourned for the day. Next hearing date to be announced later.

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@[email protected] Luthra : There was occasion, there was opportunity to complaint. But to attack a person behind their back on social media, knowing the family, wife will be affected is not done.

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@[email protected] Luthra : Law prescribes limitation for a reason. Contemporaneous in time, a person will have witnesses. 2 years 3 years limitation is there for a reason. Many years after, it is difficult to establish the falsity of allegations.

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@[email protected] Luthra : When he is pulled down, everyone near and dear is affected. There is no due process in making these allegations. At the toss of a coin you make allegations. This kind of casualness is what we need to be careful against.

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@[email protected] Luthra : You are sowing a seed of suspicion in everyone who are associated to him. His near and dear ones are affected. It has a cascading effect.

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@[email protected] Referring to precedents, Luthra submits- Even if two reasonable men thought it lowered my reputation, there is defamation. Even if the intention wasn't to defame.

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@[email protected] Luthra : My whole case is it was an intentional, deliberate allegation. And knowledge has to be imputed as of a reasonable person.

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@[email protected] Luthra : Two things I want to show- that the statements were per se defamatory, and it was intentional and mala fide.

There has been no suggestion on their part that it didn't harm my reputation.

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@[email protected] Geetha Luthra : I have satisfied the mandate that his reputation was lowered. We have showed that people had great respect for him, and her words harmed my reputation per say.

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@[email protected] Luthra begins submissions
" I've shown the chief examination of my witnesses. I've shown that per se it was defamatory..when you call someone "media's worst predator"
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@[email protected] Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja of Rouse Avenue Court Complex, New Delhi hearing the matter.

Senior Adv Geetha Luthra had started submissions on February 7. Case was then posted to today for continuing the hearing.

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Luthra, extols the reputation of Akbar and comments on how his “serious knowledge and serious grasp” helped him reach his stature. She also states that “the country needs people like him.”

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Luthra : The salacious and malicious statements made by Ramani are ex-facie defamatory. They have caused irreparable and great damage to Akbar’s reputation.
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Luthra asks if this was her victory. She asserts that it was clearly not bonafide and was just to tarnish Akbar’s image. She also states that the most important aspect of a person’s life is their reputation. On that ground, the test must be extremely strict.
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Luthra states that she’s refraining from commenting on the political bandwagon because she doesn’t want to take this in that direction. However, she comments on how the image of Akbar was tainted despite him working so hard to reach the place where he is.
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Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Rouse Avenue to start hearing soon the criminal defamation case filed by M J Akbar against journalist Priya Ramani over #MeToo allegations.

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@AnooBhu aske@[email protected] as to what qualifies as 'personal remarks' so she can be informed for the next hearing. She also asked as to whether laughing during an ongoing deposition also doesn't qualify as violating court's decorum.

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