State: Applicable Across India

Year: 2025

Date: April 9, 2025

Source:

Lawfare – Defamation, Journalists

The plaintiff is aggrieved by the incident which occurred at her residence on 26-07-2024 in the late evening, after she withdrew her participation from a live debate programme (‘live debate’) hosted by Rajdeep Sardesai premised on ‘Kargil Diwas’ and ‘Agniveers’, telecasted at 9:00 PM on India Today Television. Published on April 9, 2025By Arunima Delhi High Court Advertisement Advertisement Delhi High Court: A suit was filed by Shazia Ilmi (plaintiff) seeking to restrain them from making, publishing, circulating objectionable, offensive, ex facie false and allegedly doctored video outraging plaintiff’s modesty in the privacy of her home, followed by public statement with malicious intent, to lower the dignity of the Plaintiff and cast a slur on her temperament and character, which as per the plaintiff is defamatory. Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, J., while the allegation of the video being doctored was not substantiated, and the Plaintiff failed to approach the Court with clean hands by suppressing relevant tweets from the conversation thread, the Plaintiff’s right to privacy was indeed violated with respect to an 18-second portion of the video as it was recorded without her consent after she had exited the live debate.