Tag: criminal defamation
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Putting expression behind bars!
By Vaishali Mahlyan, University Institute of Law and Management Studies. The concept of Criminal Defamation is a hot piece of cake in front of the Supreme Court. To get an insight, we need to know, “what defamation is?” Defamation is derived from a Latin word ‘Diffamare’ which means ‘spreading evil report about someone’. It causes damage to…
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Criminal Defamation: Need for a paradigm shift
By Anjali Rawat, RMLNLU, Lucknow. Defamation generally can be defined as publication of a statement which lowers or deteriorates the reputation of an individual in the eyes of the society which results in bad treatment of that individual by the members of society in ways such as avoiding or shunning. Defamation is of two types-…