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2022 (3) TMI 1582 - HC - Indian LawsSuit for mandatory and permanent injunction as also for damages for defamation - HELD THAT:- The Delhi Government, through the plaintiff, has kept the purchase and maintenance orders on hold, stating no reason. Hence, it is reasonable to infer that the Committee report and the CBI inquiry may have had some effect on this decision of the Government. It would, no doubt be upon the defendant No. 1 to actually prove justification during trial. But on the material placed on the record, there is nothing on which basis the tweets can be treated as blatant lies and hence defamatory. In Tata Sons Limited Vs. Greenpeace International & Anr 2011 [2011 (1) TMI 1587 - DELHI HIGH COURT], a Coordinate Bench of this Court concluded that wider viewership or a degree of permanence characteristic of publication on the internet would not change the essential fact that it too is "but a medium of expression and called for no different standards for grant of interlocutory injunction". This Court does not find any reason to take a different view. On an assessment, on the cardinal principles for grant of interim relief, i.e., existence of a prima-facie case, balance of convenience and irreparable loss and injury, no case for grant of interim injunction to restrain the defendant No. 1 from tweeting/publishing his views or to take down or archive the existing tweets, is made-out. Application dismissed.
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