{"id":253018,"date":"2021-08-20T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=253018"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T07:24:07","slug":"gangubai-kathiawadi-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/08\/20\/gangubai-kathiawadi-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangubai Kathiawadi | Can an adoptive son file for defamation of deceased mother? Bom HC decodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bombay High Court: <\/strong>Nitin W. Sambre, J., expressed that,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cThe law on the principle of Torts that an action dies with the person, in a defamation proceedings is required to be appreciated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Restraining the movie Gangubai Kathiawadi<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instant suit was initiated against the respondent\/defendant seeking decree of permanent injunction restraining them from publishing, printing, advertising, selling, alienating, assigning and\/or creating any third-party rights and\/or holding any press meets, promoting the Novel namely \u201cThe Mafia Queens of Mumbai\u201d and\/or writing any other story of the life of mother of the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defendants 5, 3 and 4 took out Notice of Motion under Order VII, Rule 11 Code of Civil Procedure after the respondents were served with suit summons. The said notice of motions were allowed. As a consequence, plaint came to be rejected. Hence the first appeal was filed.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Analysis, Law and Decision<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court while expressing that the law on the principle of Torts that an action dies with the person, in a defamation proceeding is required to be appreciated, held that the contents of defamatory nature against so-called adoptive mother of appellant dies with her death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, the Bench stated that appellant had to demonstrate that he was the adoptive son of deceased Gangubai Kathiawadi, which he prima facie failed to as he suffered a legal injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The said principle is based on the Supreme Court decision in <em>Melapurath Sankunni Ezhuthassan v. Thekittil Geopalankutty Nair, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/76U5WevS\">\u00a0(1986) 1 SCC 118<\/a>, and Bombay High Court decision in <em>Luckumsey Rowji v. Hurbun Nursey, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/t020q5OP\">1881 SCC Online Bom 39<\/a> was rightly considered by the City Civil Court while passing the order of rejection of plaint.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Merely because the appellant is claiming to be son of such person cannot be prima facie inferred to have the legal right to show indulgence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above, temporary injunction was not granted.[Babuji Rawji Shah v. S. 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