Zee Media in its complaint said that the accused individual has revealed an article on the web site of Moneylife Digital Pvt. Ltd containing nothing however false allegations and defamatory statements against it.
Ld. Magistrate of Patiala House Court took cognizance on Saturday on the defamation Complaint filed by Zee Media Corporation Ltd against Sucheta Dalal, one Director and the Company, Moneylife Digital Pvt. Ltd. Sucheta Dalal is a well known Indian enterprise journalist and creator for over twenty years and was awarded a Padma Shri for journalism in 2006.
On June 29, 2023, she revealed an article and additional tweeted the identical. She additionally did a YouTube video which was additionally uploaded by Moneylife Digital Pvt. Ltd which has been alleged to be defamatory in nature. Adv. Vijay Aggarwal, together with Adv. Yugant Sharma & Adv Pankush Goyal appeared on behalf of the complainant, Zee Media and said that the accused individual has revealed an article on the web site of Moneylife Digital Pvt. Ltd containing nothing however false allegations and defamatory statements against the complainant firm together with its mentor, Dr Subhash Chandra.
Adv. Vijay Aggarwal confirmed the portion of the defamatory article and argued that the article, tweets and video focused Zee Media with none rhyme and motive and contained the phrases; ‘chequered past’ and ‘Zee group’s dodgy enterprise’ which is fake, scandalous, deceptive and derogatory in any case. Further, he said that Dalal is deliberately accusing the Zee Group of being engaged in corruption.
After listening to the arguments of Adv. Aggarwal, Ld. Magistrate took cognizance of the complaint filed by Zee Media Corporation Ltd against Sucheta Dalal, one Director and the Company; Moneylife Digital Pvt. Ltd. If Dalal together with different accused occurs to be convicted, the offence of defamation supplies easy imprisonment which can prolong upto two years.
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