New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, May 21, rapped commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra for his alleged defamatory and abusive social media posts against nine women journalists of media house Newslaundry and asked him to remove the posts within five hours.
The court was hearing a plea by nine women journalists of Newslaundry and sought an injunction and damages of Rs 2 crore from Mitra for his “defamatory, false, malicious and unsubstantiated allegations” published on X.
Mitra had posted vulgar remarks from February to May this year, addressing the women journalists as “prostitutes” and that their workplace is a “brothel.”
“These kinds of languages, whatever may be the background, can these against women be permissible in the society? First you remove the posts then we will hear you. If you fail to remove within five hours, I will order an FIR against you,” Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav told Mitra’s counsel, who sought to defend the posts.
Mitra’s counsel said the words used in the posts were not correct and agreed to take down the posts.
The court posted the matter on May 26.
(With PTI inputs)
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