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Rana Ayyub posted a link to the said article on Twitter stating that the article was a “hitjob”.
Arora replied to Ayyub’s tweet, “The man has been accused of rape, he routinely engages in hate speech”.
This tweet was liked by Rawat.
Iyer-Mitra argued that Rawat’s liking of the defamatory tweet means that the same could be read by anybody who perused her Twitter profile. He said that the allegations made in the “defamatory tweet were false and frivolous and were of such nature that they would lower his reputation in the eyes of the right-thinking people”.
Arora and Iyer-Mitra settled the matter and Arora published an apology on his Twitter profile as well.
While deciding the case with respect to Rawat, the Court held that liking the tweet made it available on Rawat’s profile and thus the same constitutes republication.
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Advocate Raghav Awasthi appeared for Abhijit Iyer-Mitra.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-court-orders-ndtvs-gargi-rawat-to-pay-10000-to-abhijit-iyer-mitra-for-liking-a-defamatory-tweet