Sejal Chaturvedi –
In the plea by India Today Channel against TheCognate, the Court had ruled in favour of the former, asking TheCognate to take down all defamatory tweets and social media posts against India Today.
India Today had accused The Cognate of putting defamatory public posts and falsely accusing the channel of differential and biased approach in reporting incidents of violations of covid-19 guidelines during Kumbh Mela and Mecca Masjid.
These posts were viewed and liked by many people.
The Court held that the infographic posts by the defendant, accused the channel of having differential and biased approach in reporting and spreading Islamophobia.
The Court said that the case was prima facie in favour of the plaintiff, as there were no substantial grounds of the allegations made by TheCognate.
Further the Court acknowledged the fact that in the digital world nothing could ever be deleted and would always leave a mark in the public, thus those posts were defamatory in nature.
