Defamation case against editor dismissed

KOLKATA, MAY 19. A city court has dismissed a defamation case against Mr. C.R. Irani, editor-in-chief of The Statesman and two others, filed by a Public Prosecutor alleging that the former Bengal Chief Minister, Mr. Jyoti Basu, was defamed by an editorial published in the daily on August 29 last. Rejecting the contention, Mr. Ashoke Bakshi, the judge of the 8th Bench of the Sessions Court, Mr. R.D. Kundu, on Friday observed that the editorial should be read as a whole and it was not defamatory.

He said that Mr. Bakshi had not taken the mandatory sanction of the Governor to file the case. In the alternative submission of Mr. Bakshi that sanction had been granted by the State Government was not supported by a minute of the Government.

- PTI

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