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JNU Professor criminal defamation
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In March 2023, the Delhi High Court quashed the summoning order, stating that there is nothing therein that could be defamatory against former Professor

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While freedom of speech and expression is sacrosanct, the reputation of a person earned over several decades, cannot be sacrificed at the altar of such freedom, when the impugned publication, ex-facie, contains unsubstantiated allegations and defamatory imputations, regardless of the truth.