Company can be prosecuted if it did not disown authorized agent's defamatory statements: Supreme Court

The Court also held that there was no bar on a magistrate to consider whether any of the Exceptions to Section 499 (defamation) of Indian Penal Code is attracted, at the stage the court proceeds to issue process.

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