Times Now hit with Rs 100 cr fine in defamation case

November 14, 2011 15:27

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with a Mumbai High Court order under which Times Now news channel has been asked to deposit Rs 20 crore in cash and to give a bank guarantee of Rs 80 crore before its appeal against a trial court award of damages of Rs 100 crore to former apex court judge P B Sawant could be heard.

Justice Sawant had sued the news channel for displaying his photo wrongly during telecast of a news bulletin on September 10, 2008 on a Provident Fund scam allegedly involving a Calcutta High Court judge. The report had
mistakenly showed Justice Sawants photograph.

On a defamation suit by Justice Sawant, the Pune district court had ordered the company to pay him Rs 100 crore as damages.

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