Civil Defamation Punjab Haryana, Gauhati, Gujarat

 

# No.

Cause Title

Court

Year

Media Involved

1

Tata Tea Ltd v. BVP Rao

Gauhati HC

2006

Newspaper

2

GL Publications v. North East Indian Trust for Education and Development  and Ors

Gauhati HC

2009

Newspaper

3

Rajiv Kumar v. Ashok Kumar Aggarwal

Gauhati HC

2014

Newspaper

4

Asomiya Pratidin v. Bhupen Borgohain

Gauhati HC

2015

Newspaper

5

Toxic Links v. Chemie Organics

Gujarat HC

2002

Report (possibly academic)

6

Mahender Kumar Sharma v. Ram Rattan Phor

Punjab & Haryana HC

2016

Newspaper

7

Sodhi Gurbachan Singh Koshan v. Babu Ram

Punjab & Haryana HC

1968

Weekly paper

8

Devki Nandan v. K Narinder

Punjab & Haryana HC

1962

Newspaper

9

Niranjan Singh v. Kulwant Kaur

Punjab & Haryana HC

2009

Newspaper

 

 

 

 

 

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