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, EYE ON JUSTICETHE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER BY THE PENMEN GROUP
IN THIS ISSUE
SUPREME COURT
language used by him in the articles was We cover various
JUDGEMENTS- offensive. It was held that DS Vishwanatha important
Supreme court upholds Kannada would not get away by merely pleading that
the articles he wrote were in good faith. But
judgements
Journalist D S Vishwanath conviction
the Karnataka High Court partly allowed his pertaining to
in criminal defamation case
plea and reduced the imprisonment to one fundamental rights
On 17th December 2021, the Supreme Court month and the fine was reduced to 50,000/-
of detained
dismissed an appeal filed against DS
The case was appealed in the Supreme Court. individuals to the
Vishwanatha Shetty challenging his conviction
A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV
and sentence in the defamation case. He had
Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima
rights of the
written an offensive article against an advocate. LGBTQ+
Kohli said that the language used by the
The complaint was filed by TN Rathnaraj against journalist in the articles was extremely community along
DS Vishwanatha Shetty who is an editor and offensive. Though while passing the
judgement the Supreme Court said that they
with other
publisher of Kannada weekly and had published
several articles with baseless allegations against see no reason to interfere with the order pressing issues
TN Rathnaraj to harm his reputation. passed by the High Court, the said court such as dowry
reduced the sentence and increased the fine
In 2018, DS Vishwanatha Shetty was sentenced against the offence of defamation under
death and medical
to imprisonment up to 1 year and with a fine of 6 Section 501 of the Indian Penal Code. negligence in
lakhs. DS Vishwanatha Shetty then approached
Therefore, the Supreme Court dismissed the
India.
the Karnataka High Court which upheld the
conviction passed by trial court and said that the special leave petition and directed DS
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER BY THE PENMEN GROUP March edition
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