Bombay High Court refuses to gag media in the Shilpa Shetty case

The Bombay High Court has noted that passing a blanket gag order on any reportage of Shilpa Shetty in the media would have a chilling effect on the freedom of the press. Shilpa Shetty had earlier approached the court with a defamation notice against media publications in connection with the arrest of her husband, businessman Raj Kundra, in the p ..n apps case.

Justice Gautam Patel was hearing the order and he did order three videos on YouTube to be deleted and not uploaded again. These three videos in question had made malicious comments on Shilpa Shetty's moral standing and had even questioned her parenting following the arrest of Raj Kundra in the p..n racket case. Senior advocate Birendra Saraf and advocate Abhinav Chandrachud were appearing for the actress in the case. "It is underwhelming. Your prayer for supervising editorial content is dangerous," Justice GS Patel had said at the beginning of the hearing, according to legal portal, Bar and Bench.

The judge went on to review an article on a news portal and asked: "How is this defamatory? You are saying if you cannot say anything nice about Shilpa Shetty, do not say anything at all?"

Justice Patel also noted that most of the articles that were mentioned in the defamation suit were based on what police sources had said. One of the articles mentioned had claimed that "Shetty cried and fought with her husband Kundra" during the joint interrogation at their home. "Reportage of something based on what police sources have said is not defamatory. If this had happened in the four walls of your house with no one around then the issue is different. But this has happene You chose a life in the public eye then all this will come as part of the territory. Your life is under a microscope," he added.

Shilpa Shetty's application had also sought damages worth INR 25 crores against the respondents (the media publications mentioned in the suit along with social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube) because they were reportedly causing irreparable loss and damage to her reputation.  d in the presence of outsiders. How is this defamation?" Justice Patel said.

She must be really really stupid if she thought she would win any case in this situation. 

Now is definitely not the time to put more attention on yourself. This tells me she knew about the business and was probably enjoying its money. Any sane and innocent person wouldn’t be going around asking for money, dragging themselves even more and make fools out of themselves. 

Stupidity at its best. 

Lmao, did she seriously think the court would ban the media from reporting on the case?