individual accused did not arise.
[457G-H; 458B]
English decisions dealing with libel, held not applicable on
all fours.[457A-B]
Sarat Chandra ... Daphtary
referred us to certain English decisions governing the law
of Libel and he also invited our attention to certain
decisions of the High Courts
appeals, by the plaintiffs, arise out of an action for damages for libel by the defendant.
2. The suit was partly decreed by the first ... relating to an action tor defamation, with particular reference to libel.
12. Speaking generally, every man is entitled to his good name
19th October 1913. The charge was one of defamation or criminal libel, and the prosecution was laid under the 21st chapter of the Indian Penal ... that is necessarily involved in the contention that he published serious libels and did so otherwise than in good faith.
4. The proceedings against
HEADNOTE:
One T filed a suit claiming Rs. 3 lacs damages for libel
against a newspaper. The suit was decreed by a Judge ... obsolete, the proper remedy being for the/judge to take
action for libel; (3) The allegations were made in the bona
fide belief that they
assumed at the hearing that the English Common Law offence of libel was something essentially different from the offence of defamation ... following:
I.--Whereas the English Common Law makes punishable-
(1) libels on private individuals,
(2) libels on bodies of men and corporations,
(3) libels
Courts in India, at any rate to civil actions in damages for libel or slander. On the other hand, the plaintiff, who argued the matter ... abrogated and the same should not be applied to civil actions for libel or slander. In support of these rival contentions several authorities were relied
duty of restraint on
speech or expression not to utter defamatory or libellous
speech or expression. There is a correlative duty not to
interfere with ... THEY WERE DEFAMATORY.
49. According to The Common Law Library Gatley on Libel and
Slander, the jurisdiction to grant interim injunctions to restrain
publication
circumstances of the case could not in law bring an action for libel merely on the ground that his feelings have been injured that ... cause of action and could not in law bring an action for libel, as the "person aggrieved". Mr. Jana's reply
clear distinction between slander or spoken words on the one hand, and libel or written words on the other hand. The former with certain limited ... prosecution does not lie in Eng-land for slander but only for libel. (See Archbold's Criminal Pleading, 26th Ed., p. 1245). In this
defendants
themselves, and through their agents, have been publishing
slanderous and / or libellous statements in regard to the
plaintiff no.2; these slanderous ... libellous statements
have resulted in the plaintiff no.2‟s reputation and goodwill
being tarnished and caused economic loss to both the
plaintiffs
