Criminal Defamation Madhya Pradesh High Court

*# No.*	*Cause Title*	*Year*	*Media involved*	*Nature*	*High Court*
1.	Prayagdutt Haripal Prasad Tiwari and Anr. v. Gajadhar Prasad Mahabir Prasad Tiwari	1977	Newspaper	Criminal	Madhya Pradesh High Court (MPHC)
2.	Suman Sehgal v. Santosh Dhakad and Ors.	2015	Magazine	Criminal	MPHC
3.	Alok Mitra, ‘Editor’, Satya Katha and Ors. v. Narendra Kumar and Anr.	1987	Magazine	Criminal	MPHC
4.	Anurag Soni v. Rakesh Vishwakarma	2012	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
5.	Babu Khan v. Abdul Latif Khan and Anr.	2012	Public distribution of criminal complaint	Criminal	MPHC
6.	Brij Maheswari (Smt.) v. Arun Jain and Anr.	2005	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
7.	Laxminarayan Singh and Anr. v. Shriram Sharma	1982	Magazine	Criminal	MPHC
8.	R.K. Karanjia v. Sewak Ram Sobhani	1978	Weekly Magazine	Criminal	MPHC
9.	Purushottam Vijay v. the State	1960	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
10.	In re: Hari Narain Buddharam	1962	Handbill	Criminal	MPHC
11.	Thakur Dongar Singh v. Krishna Kant and Anr.	1958	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
12.	Ram Niwas Gupta v. Dainik Sandhya Prakash and Ors.	2007	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
13.	Dongarsingh v. Krishan Kant Vyas and Anr.	1957	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
14.	Urmila Mishra v. Bholanath Yadav and Ors.	2003	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
15.	Charanjit Singh v. Surendra Narayan	2007	Letter published in Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
16.	Surendra Bhardwaj v. The State	1956	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
17.	R.D. Vyas and Ors. v. C.K. Shrivastava and Anr.	2000	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
18.	Janardan v. Government Pleader (Public Prosecutor) Durg	1969	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
19.	Rakesh Agarwal v. B.S. Jaggi	2012	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
20.	Abdul Rauf Khan v. Dr. Majid Hussain	1989	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
21.	Purshotam Das Agarwal v. Ashuthosh	2013	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
22.	Narayan Singh v. Rajmal	1960	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
23.	Rampal Ahirwar v. State of M.P. and Ors.	2007	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
24.	Dainik Bhaskar and Ors. v. Kailash Soni and Ors.	2016	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
25.	Asharam Bapu v. Aman Singh Dangi	2014	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
26.	Sunderlal Patwa v. Digvijay Singh and Anr.	2002	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
27.	Mansoor Shah v. Maya Shankar and Anr.	1952	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
28.	Malyakel Abraham Joy and Ors. v. John Raphael	2005	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
29.	Hardeep Singh Anand v. State of MP and Ors.	2008	Newspaper	Criminal	MPHC
30.	Indrani Dutta and Anr. V. Baldeo Sharma and Ors.	1993	Newspaper	Criminal/Contempt of Court	MPHC

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