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  • Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Defamation is an injury to the reputation of a person. Rightly, law gives protection to man’s reputation as i

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Defamation is an injury to the reputation of a person. Rightly, law gives protection to man’s reputation as it gives protection to his life and property. “Defamation” has been recognised as a civil wrong in the Law of Torts. “Defamation” has been recognised as a criminal wrong in the Law of Crimes. The pain it causes, if nothing else may be enough to keep one man apart from another. It may provoke a breach of the peace and disturb public tranquillity. The law cannot, therefore allow it. All systems of jurisprudence have recognised reputation as one of the four cardinal rights of man, the other three being rights relating to person, property and liberty. Artificial persons also have reputation. Section 44 defines an injury as harm illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation or property. Harm which can be legally caused is not punishable. A man may suffer from the disclosure of the fact that he has been convicted of theft and public good may require such disclosure.

In the Criminal Law, the wrong-doer is punished with imprisonment or with fine or with both. In Indian Penal Code, the Section 499 defines-“Defamation”, and also gives ten exceptions for it, along with fifteen illustrations. Section 500 imposes punishment for defamation. Sections 501 and 502 also deal with printed defamatory matter. According to Section 500, whoever defames another shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both Nature of offence:

The offence under Section 500 in case of public servant is non-cognizable, bailable, compoundable with permission of the Court before which any prosecution of such offence is pending and triable by Court of Session and in any other case, non-cognizable, bailable, compoundable, and triable by Magistrate of the first class. According to Section 501, whoever prints or engraves any matter, knowing or having good reason to believe that such matter is defamatory of any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which lay extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. According to Section 502, whoever sells or offers for sale any printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing that it contains such matter, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Question: X and Y are politicians who are rivals of each other. X gets to know about the illicit relations of Y with multiple women. This makes X deliver a long speech in front of multiple people claiming that Y is a casanova. However, the investigations reveal that all the women who accused Y of having a relationship with them are false. Determine the liability of X.

 

Option: 1

X has committed libel


Option: 2

X has not committed libel


Option: 3

X has not committed slander

 


Option: 4

X has committed slander

 


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Slander is a false statement that is made publically to damage someone’s reputation. Libel, on the contrary, is a publication or a written statement. Here, what X has done is damage the reputation of Y with something false, hence he is liable to slander.

 

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