Selvi. J. Jayalalithaa vs . on 27 August, 2012
Therefore, the stage of the case is different from the stage of the case discussed in Khushwant Singh's case. Moreover, I have discussed about the difference between the biography and autobiography in the earlier paragraphs. Certainly autobiography is different from biography. In the case dealt with by Delhi High Court, namely, Khushwant Singhs case, the autobiography written by Khushwant Singh in respect of his relation with other persons and one among them was Maneka Gandhi, who sought the relief of injunction restraining the author from invading her right to privacy. In an autobiography reasonable verification would be always available, since it was experienced by the author himself in his autobiography. But in the case of a biography, it is not so. The subject of the biography has to be dictate or explain all the incidents regarding the life of that subject so as to give authentication for those writings. Admittedly, the third defendant did not get any authentication or consent from the plaintiff. It is not the case of the third defendant that the plaintiff has asked her to write biography of the plaintiff, but the third defendant herself has started writing about the life of the plaintiff without any consent of the plaintiff. But the book was only revolving around the plaintiff from her childhood to the present position. Therefore, whatever name it is called, it would only be a biography and not else. So far as a biography is concerned, it must be dictated by the person, who is the subject of the biography and the author should write it to the consent and the verification from the said subject. It is totally absent in this case. The private life of the plaintiff was centred around even prior to her entering politics and those contents were not verified nor any reasonable verification was done by the third defendant. In the said circumstances, the contents of the book was openly denied by the learned senior counsel appearing for the plaintiff, containing false and incorrect particulars.