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India Law wins gag order for Tata against ex employee, in Bombay HC

India Law won a gag order for the Tata Group in the Bombay high court against Tata’s ex employee Nityanand Sinha whom the court has ordered to remove all libelous material and forbade him from making any disparaging remarks about a wide section of Tata employees reported [Times of India].

India Law advocate Tushar Cooper was acting for Tata in favour of whom justice Gautam Patel made an order restraining Sinha - a former general manager at HL Homes - from issuing derogatory statements about the firm including “then directors, principal officers, agents, representatives, employees, servants, clients, business associates, business partners, companies forming a part of the Tata group of companies”.

Justice Patel also barred Sinha from using “emails, letters, SMSs, social media posts, websites, newspapers print or electronic, or in any other manner whatsoever, to any third parties/ general public including but not limited to newspaper editors, journalists, clients, business associates/business partners of the Plaintiffs/Tata group of companies or any other third parties/ general public”.

Sinha had allegedly made derogatory posts about the company on Facebook and Twitter, and sent emails to the company’s investors/financiers, after his engagement with the Tata was terminated.

Justice Sinha observed: “This is no sense journalism or fair reportage. The plaintiffs are not a public body to be held to have to prove a high standard of actual malice. I do not see how it is possible to conclude that the defendant’s posts meet a good faith standard or can be said to have been made in the reasonable belief of their truth. They appear, prima facie, to be allegations levelled only to further a private agenda and a vendetta of some kind.”

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