| GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: help... Dec 4th 2012, 17:52 | GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012 | | The source for all engineering and legal education news in India | | | help... Dec 4th 2012, 17:29 PRINCIPLE 1: If injury to a person's reputation is caused without any lawful justification, then the tort of defamation is committed. PRINCIPLE 2: Truth is a defence to defamation. FACT SITUATION: The CBI convicted A for malpractice in trading. He was awarded a seven year imprisonment and fine of Rs. 1,00,000. The Times Now, a news channel reported that A had been awarded eight years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,00,000. X wants to sue Times Now? 1) Times Now is liable as the figures they gave were incorrect. 2) Times Now is not liable because the report was substantially true. 3) Times Now is liable for negligence. 4) Times Now is not liable as small mistakes such as these are never taken seriously. Question Weightage: 1 Mark(s) Your answer is :1 The correct answer is : 2 B is closest to the principle. Whatever they reported was substantially true and truth is a defence to defamation. here they havnt published nythn truth......agreed to the the fact that......its wont make a huge difference as such......but then stickin to the principle......they should be liable.....more over nothin called as "substantially" given in principal.. they jst want TRUTH...nd more over it wasnt lawfully justified giving wrong numbers nd all...... ????? |  | | |  |  |
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