Compensation for wrong news about myself and my family
arvind
(Querist) 21 February 2015
This query is : Resolved
dear sir i was arrested by police for false complant. without any proof. on 2011 may.now recent i was discharge by the court. and some newspaper company without any truth the published my photo on the newspaper and told some wrong news which is not mention in the fir and complant.because my case is 10 lakhs of cheating false case. but the told in the newspaper that i was arrested for 1 crore of rupees and the are mention that 468 ipc as been book.sir i was arrested only for 420 and 419. not 468 ipc .please tell can i fill and criminal case and civil case for compensation. because for civil case there is no time limit and. for criminal case there is one year from newspaper publisation please tell me because i lost my job and one civil case was going on karnataka hc. due this i lost my property.to the against party. even judge thought that i have cheated this party to please tell me
Dr J C Vashista
(Expert) 22 February 2015
File complaint against the newspaper under the provisions of section 499/500 IPC for defamation.
Simultaneously you should also file a suit against the newspaper for compensation of xxxxxx amount for defamation.
Consult your lawyer.
Rajendra K Goyal
(Expert) 23 February 2015
File FIR for defamation. Consult local lawyer.
Anirudh
(Expert) 23 February 2015
The defamation cannot be filed at your sweet will of time.
The moment you came to know that something wrong and defamatory has been published about you, you ought to have served a legal notice to the party concerned asking them to publish the apology prominently.
Having not done then, now I am afraid, it is too late in the day to think about any defamation case.
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 24 February 2015
A criminal defamation case at this belated stage is barred by limitation. What were you doing all these four years ? consult your lawyer for further issues.
Sudhir Kumar, Advocate
(Expert) 19 September 2016
it is a plain fat (as you said) you were arrested.
so publishing such news with photo is not a defamation.
please clarify whether any false statement (which press knew to be false) is made
