Overview
- Anil Ambani’s defamation suit against NDTV, taken up Thursday in the Delhi High Court, drew a notice to the defendants but no temporary gag on further reports.
- Ambani alleges NDTV ran about 72 targeted stories that tied him personally to probes of Reliance group firms and claims the coverage served Adani Group interests after it took control of the channel.
- Justice Subramonium Prasad said the court would hear detailed arguments in July and noted that an injunction requires proof the reporting is so wrong that it warrants a curb.
- The suit seeks more than Rs 2 crore in damages to be donated to charity and names NDTV, its digital arm, news agency IANS, CEO Rahul Kanwal, and senior editors as defendants.
- NDTV and IANS argue their reports drew on official records from the CBI and ED, while Ambani says agencies are probing corporate entities rather than him, setting up a clash between reputation claims and press rights.