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Calling CM corrupt defamatory, Jayalalithaa counsel tells SC
2015-08-24 | Chennai,
Ref: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/calling-cm-corrupt-defamatory-jayalalithaa-counsel-tells-sc/article7555701.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
Whether calling a Chief Minister “corrupt” amounted to criminal defamation or not was the crux of a debate between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s lawyers and the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“You can’t call a Chief Minister ‘corrupt’ and then say there is no defamation,” senior advocate L. Nageshwar Rao told a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C. Pant.