criminal defamation

Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia had in May issued summons to Rahul Gandhi after admitting a complaint filed by a BJP leader.

The court will consider the matter on 9th October.

The Wire and Rohini Singh decides to face trial in a defamation case filed by Amit Shah's son Jay Shah

Mahua Moitra had filed a criminal defamation case against Zee News journalist Sudhir Chaudhary on June 15 alleging that he claimed that her maiden speech in the Parliament was plagiarised.

Addressing the media after the court hearing, Gandhi said that this is a fight for ideology and he is standing with the poor and farmers. "Attacks are happening, I am having fun," he said.

The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal had directed Kejriwal and other accused to appear before the court. However, on April 30, the court had granted exemption from personal appearance to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and three others in defamation. 

In December 2018, Kejriwal had alleged that the BJP has got 30 lakh names of votes deleted. Rajeev Babbar had filed a defamation case over it.

Srinagar District Magistrate Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Republic TV chief, Arnab Goswami in a defamation case filed by PDP MLA Naeem Akhtar.

Congress had picked up the malicious article by Caravan Magazine and conducted a press conference where allegations were hurled upon Vivek Doval, NSA Ajit Doval's son. Doval had then filed a criminal defamation case

Read exclusive details of the criminal defamation case filed by Vivek Doval, son of Ajit Doval against Caravan Magazine and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh