Delhi Court Restrains Journalists, Activists From Publishing Defamatory Stories About Adani
A Delhi Court passed an ex parte interim order restraining journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair, Abir Dasgupta, Ayush Joshi, Ayaskant Das, and others from publishing defamatory material against businessman Gautam Adani’s Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL).
The Delhi court directs the defendants to remove the defamatory material from their respective articles/social media posts/tweets within 5 days from the date of the order.
Adani Enterprises filed a defamation suit alleging that certain journalists, activists, and organisations damaged the company’s reputation and cost its stakeholders billions of dollars. The suit mentions the massive loss to the image, brand equity, and credibility of India’s brand as a country.
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According to Adani Enterprises, these journalists and activists have aligned with anti-India interests and have been targeting Adani Enterprises’ infrastructures and energy projects, critical to India’s infrastructure and energy security, and have disrupted these projects with ulterior motives.
It also accused the activists and journalists of delaying Adani’s Australian operations, pushing back development timelines, and straining the balance sheets of the Adani Group and key investment plans. This has also tarnished the global reputation of the AEL and hindered its ability to raise funds, pushing back the development timelines by years.
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AEL referred to the articles published on paranjoy.in, adaniwatch.org and adanifiles.com.au and their defamatory content against the company, the Adani Group as well as its founder and chairman Gautam Adani.
While giving the interim injunction, the court ruled that it is also conscious of the sarcosanct principle of the freedom of speech guarated under Article 19 (1)(a).
