The Delhi High Court on Friday directed digital news outlet Newslaundry to take down allegedly disparaging videos and posts about the TV Today Group and its channels Aaj Tak and India Today, reported Bar and Bench.
A division bench comprising Justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla held that some of the statements made by Newslaundry were disparaging. If the statements are not removed, they would cause serious and irreparable harm to TV Today, the bench added, according to Live Law.
In October 2021, the TV Today Group filed a Rs 2 crore defamation and copyright infringement suit, accusing Newslaundry of “uploading infringing, defamatory, commercially disparaging material on their own website”.
In July 2022, a single-judge bench of the High Court held that on a prima facie basis, the case appeared to be in favour of the TV Today group.
Both Newslaundry and TV Today had filed appeals against the July 2022 order.
Newslaundry had contended in its plea that the single-judge order did not appreciate that its content falls within the realm of “fair criticism” and “satire” and was not meant to defame TV Today.
In its original plea, the TV Today group had sought an order to have 34 articles on the Newslaundry website and 65 videos on the portal’s YouTube channel removed.
The media conglomerate had also asked the High Court...
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