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List of Incidents in Maharashtra -> Censorship -> 2014
Bombay HC restrains website from news on builder:defamation
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Mumbai, Maharashtra

Justice A S Gadkari of the Bombay High Court has restrained a website from any further publication of news of a well known builder, Vikas Oberoi and his company, Oberoi Construction Co.

In an ad interim order on Oct 17, 2014, the judge also directed the take down of the defamatory content/ material on the website, www.abinet.org.

The order was passed on a plaint by advocate Birendra Saraf, who said that a story published on the site on October 13, 2014, "Billionaire builder Vikas Oberoi now accused of forging stamp papers. Lawyers and NRI also involved', contained defamatory statements and allegations against him.