Hari Shankar vs Kailash Narayan And Ors. on 2 April, 1981
29. It would be seen from the foregoing judgments, that the settled legal position is that where truth, justification and fair comment are pleaded, there is to be no prior restraint on publication unless the Court can find it to be a case of malafides. This was the situation in the case of Hari Shankar (Supra) where repeatedly false and defamatory imputations were being maliciously published.