Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 105 · Decided 1 May 1981
Sewakram Sobhani v. R.K. Karanjia, Chief Editor, Weekly Blitz & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 105 · [1981] 3 S.C.R. 627
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 543/1979
- Decided
- 1 May 1981
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN, BAHARUL ISLAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 499, 500; CrPC Section 251, 482, 397, 401; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
627 Penal Code-Section 499-Ninth exception-Scope of-Respondent made imputations regarding character of appellant in an article published in his journal purporting to be based on confidential report of a high official of State Government­ Government claimed privilege in regard to wuived privilege before High Court-In revision High Court held t~e news item justified on the basis of report­ High Court, whether competent to quash the order of Magistrate. A B c A news item published in the Blitz weekly of which the respondent was the Editor, stated that the
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