Defences to Defamation
Scope
Truth, fair comment and privilege in civil law, and the ten exceptions in the criminal provision.
Authorities to start from
- Indian Penal Code, 1860, § 499 (now Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, § 356)
- Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, (2016) 7 SCC 221
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