{"id":295732,"date":"2025-06-15T21:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/criminal-defamation-05-2019-dlct120000252019\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:21:46","slug":"criminal-defamation-05-2019-dlct120000252019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=295732","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Defamation (05\/2019 \u2013 DLCT12\u00ad000025\u00ad2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1617\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The \u201cCOURT OF SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, ACMM\u00ad01, ROUSE AVENUE DISTRICT COURTS, NEW DELHI\u201d vide its judgment dated 17th Feb., 2021 has dismissed the criminal defamation case filed by Former Union Minister M.J. Akbar (complainant). <\/p>\n<p>The court while acquitting Priyan Ramani (Accused), held that, \u2018Women has right to put her grievance even after decades.\u2019 Further, the court also found that the defense of \u201cPublic interest, truth\u201d as pleaded by the Accused backing her tweets relating to Sexual harassment and the #MeToo campaign against the complainant was held as valid and not amounting to defamation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#d11415;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Read full judgment:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cCOURT OF SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, ACMM\u00ad01, ROUSE AVENUE DISTRICT COURTS, NEW DELHI\u201d vide its judgment dated 17th Feb., 2021 has dismissed the criminal defamation case filed by Former Union Minister M.J. 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