Cal HC quashes defamation case, holds public interest outweighs right to reputation
Kolkata, The Calcutta High Court has quashed a defamation case filed by the superintendent of an educational institution against more than 280 people who had submitted a mass petition to the Chief Minister against him, holding that it pertains to public interest outweighing the right to reputation. Cal HC quashes defamation case, holds public interest outweighs right to reputation Delivering a judgment on a petition challenging the criminal defamation case filed before the Bardhaman district court in 2013 by the superintendent, Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta ruled that the complainant failed to substantiate his allegations of defamation against the petitioners. "The mass complaint, filed against the complainant by 287 individuals, is privileged in nature as it pertains to a matter of public interest outweighing the right to reputation," the court stated in its judgment last week. Rajdeep Mazumder, senior counsel representing the petitioners seeking to quash the defamation case, argued before the court that the superintendent’s complaint before the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Bardhaman, was mala fide, motivated and frivolous.
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