New Delhi:
Delhi HC
has ordered the removal of posts by Congress politicians
Ragini Nayak
, Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera that allege that senior journalist
Rajat Sharma
used abusive language on air during a show on election results day.
The single judge bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna granted an ex parte ad interim injunction order in favour of Sharma in his
defamation suit
and directed that the posts on ‘X’ which have not been removed, be removed within seven days by the defendants in terms of the intermediary guidelines.
The court also directed that videos in the public domain in this case be made private by Google India Pvt Ltd and not be put in the public domain without judicial orders.
“Irreparable loss and injury would be caused to the plaintiff for if the videos and tweets, etc., are allowed to be in public domain, they would continue to cause harm to his reputation as a respectable journalist…,” it said.
The bench, noting that the three
Congress politicians
posted an edited video on X claiming it to be raw footage of the debate,observed that prima facie it appeared that Sharma had not abused anyone but insertions had been made to say that “Rajat Sharma Ne Di Gaali”, which, prima facie, was a total misrepresentation of the true facts.
