The Patiala House court at Delhi has rejected R. K. Pachauri’s plea for an interim gag order against NDTV, Bennett Coleman and Co., and the India Today Group. The media houses had been made defendants in a defamation suit filed by him in 2016. In 2015, an… Read More

“Short of a gun to the head, a greater threat to First Amendment expression can scarcely be imagined” -Nicholas Colabella J. of the New York Supreme Court, in Gordon v Marrone. The above statement vividly describes what has come to be called a SLAPP suit –… Read More

By Anna Liz Thomas A lot has been made of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, finding criminal defamation laws in India, encapsulated in sections 499 and 500 of the IPC and section 199 of the CrPC, constitutional. Most public… Read More

Written by Nakul Nayak Since the Supreme Court’s May 13th ruling on the constitutionality of criminal defamation laws in India, CCG has come out with two op-eds on the shortcomings of the judgment. In today’s Indian Express, Chinmayi Arun (Executive Director of CCG) raises important questions surrounding the implications of… Read More

Tomorrow in Supreme Court’s Room no. 4 at 10.30 am a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant will pronounce the judgment regarding the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (Sections 499 and 500 of IPC and section 199 of CrPC). Read More

By Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj Background The information in this piece had originally been collected for an awareness session hosted by JaagoTeens for college students in DU, for which I had gone with CCG Fellow Aarti Bhavana. While preparing for the same, I had reached out to all my friends… Read More

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant is hearing a set of at least thirty petitions challenging the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (Sections 499 and 500 of IPC and section 199 of CrPC). The summary of hearings from the first six days can be found… Read More

Image: http://www.internetlawcommentary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/defame530.jpg Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant today heard a bunch of almost two-dozen petitions, which challenge the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code). Among the more… Read More

The Supreme Court of India is currently hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the validity of Sections 499 and 500 of IPC among others. PICTURE: http://law.famu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/defamation.jpg The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi will been tracking the case and is collecting… Read More

Author: Nikhil Kanekal The recent week has been a busy one for us at CCG, thanks to a visit from  Peter Noorlander and Nani Jansen from Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI).  We are grateful to all those who joined hands with us in our efforts. In… Read More