The Bombay High Court reserved Salman Khan's defamation suit

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• Oct 12, 2022 | digital desk

Senior advocate Ravi Kadam, appearing for Khan, has said the videos uploaded by Kakkad are...

Digital Desk: Actor Salman Khan’s appeal against a city civil court's order of March, which had refused him relief in connection to a defamation suit he had filed has been reserved by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday.

Earlier, in March, the Sessions Court refused to pass a command order against NRI Ketan Kakkar in the defamation case filed by Salman against his social media posts. The actor informed a single-judge bench of Justice C. V. Bhadang that the content, including videos uploaded on social media by his neighbour Kakkad in Panvel, where he has a farmhouse, was derogatory and defamatory. He also accused the videos of creating communal bias and being communally provocative. Khan gave directions to Kakkad to remove the same and to restrain him from making such comments. The actor had moved to HC after the civil court refused to pass an injunction order.

The verdict of Sessions Court Judge AH Laddhad was pronounced on March 23, the detailed order of which came later. Salman filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court in August this year against the Sessions Court's earlier order, which refused to issue a restraining order against his Panvel farmhouse neighbor, NRI Ketan Kakkar.

Senior advocate Ravi Kadam, appearing for Khan, has said the videos uploaded by Kakkad are speculative. "They are not only defamatory but also communally provoke viewers against Salman Khan," he said. Kakkad’s advocates told the trial court that a defamation case was filed by Khan in order to pressure him to give up the fight for his land in Panvel. Kakkad claimed that his statements revolved around facts about Khan's property, and the same could not be expanded to defamation. The lawyers argued that Salman Khan, being a celebrity, had put everything about himself, including information about his Panel farmhouse, in the public domain and that, therefore, his appeal should be dismissed.

The court on Tuesday concluded hearings on the matter and reserved its verdict, which will be pronounced in due course.