Section 499 News Today

The Supreme Court today quashed the complaint of criminal defamation filed against former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav over alleged "Gujarati hi thag hai ho sakta hai (only Gujaratis...

The Allahabad High Court recently quashed a criminal defamation case against Aroon Purie, Chairman and Director of TV Today Network Ltd. The case had been filed by a former Uttar Pradesh District...

The Kerala High Court has reiterated that Section 499 of IPC makes defamation against individuals as a punishable offence under Section 500 of IPC and not against criticism of any product or service. ...

The Court relied on Exception 8 to Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code to note that allegations made in a complaint addressed to the SDM will constitute the offence of defamation.

A defamation complaint has been filed against Rahul Gandhi in the Haridwar Court over his alleged comment during Bharat Jodo Yatra where he referred to RSS as the ‘Kauravas of twenty-first century'.

While some politicians have buried the hatchet with an apology, many others continue to pursue their defamation battle in courts.

The Kerala High Court was faced with an interesting fact situation where a person was accused of defamation for his remarks in a counter affidavit.