Supreme Court judgements on Civil and Criminal Defamation

*# No.*	*Cause Title*	*Year*	*Media involved*	*Nature*
1.	Bathina Ramakrishna Reddy v. State of Madras	1952	Weekly periodical	Criminal
2.	M.S.M. Sharma v. Sri Krishna Sinha and Ors.	1958	Daily newspaper	Criminal
3.	Dr. Jatish Chandra Ghosh v. Hari Sadhan Mukherjee and Ors.	1961	Newspaper	Criminal
4.	Sahib Singh Mehra v. State of Uttar Pradesh	1965	Newspaper	Criminal
5.	Harbhajan Singh v. State of Punjab	1965	Weekly Magazine	Criminal
6.	Perspective Publications (P) Ltd. and Anr. V. State of Maharashtra	1968	Weekly Periodical	Criminal
7.	Sewakram Sobhani v. R.K. Karanjia, Chief Editor, Weekly Blitz and Ors.	1981	Newspaper	Criminal
8.	R. Rajagopal alias R.R. Gopal and Anr. V. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.	1994	Magazine	Criminal
9.	Shatrughna Prasad Sinha v. Rajbhau Surajmal Rathi and Ors.	1996	Magazine	Criminal
10.	Jawaharlal Darda and Ors. v. Manoharrao Ganpatrao and Anr.	1998	Newspaper	Criminal
11.	John Thomas v. D.K. Jagadeesan	2001	Newspaper	Criminal
12.	In re: Arundhati Roy	2002	Magazine and book	Criminal
13.	Ch. Ramoji Rao, Chairman Ramoji Group of Companies and Anr. v. State of A.P	2006	Television broadcast	Criminal
14.	S. Khushboo v. Kanniammal and Anr.	2010	Magazine	Criminal
15.	Jeffrey J. Diermeir and Anr. v. State of West Bengal and Anr.	2010	Public Notice	Criminal
16.	Shreya Singhal v. Union of India	2015	Internet	Criminal
17.	Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India	2016	General	Criminal
18.	P.C. Joshi and Anr. V. the State of Uttar Pradesh	1960	Weekly newspaper	Criminal
19.	Gour Chandra Rout and Anr. v. The Public Prosecutor, Cuttack	1962	Daily newspaper	Criminal
20.	The State of Maharashtra v. R. B. Choudhary and Ors.	1964	Weekly publication	Criminal
21.	Kanhaiyalal Khadiwala v. Vishwanath	1966	Monthly Journal	Criminal
22.	State of Maharashtra v. Dr. R.B. Choudhary	1967	Weekly publication	Criminal
23.	Shri C.K. Daphtary and Ors. v. Shri O.P. Gupta and Ors.	1971	Pamphlet	Criminal
24.	Balraj Khanna v. Moti Ram	1971	(Unclear)	Criminal
25.	G. Narsimhan, G. Kasturi and K. Gopalan Ors. v. T.V. Chokappa	1972	Newspaper	Criminal
26.	Madhu Limaye v. The State of Maharashtra	1977	Press handout	Criminal
27.	K.M. Mathew v. K.A. Abraham and Ors.	2002	Newspapers	Criminal
28.	Gambhirsinh R. Dekare v. Falgunbhai Chimanbhai Patel and Anr.	2013	Newspaper	Criminal
29.	P.S. Meheromji v. K.T. Vijay Kumar	2014	Letter	Criminal
30.	Indrajit Lankesh v. K.T. Dhanu Kumar	2015	Newspaper	Criminal
31.	Rajdeep Sardesai v. State of Andhra Pradesh	2015	Multiple media, including newspapers and News Channel	Criminal
32.	S.R. Sukumar v. S. Sunaad Raghuram	2015	(Unclear – poem/publication)	Criminal
33.	P.M. Nalini v. K.M. Matthew	1988	Weekly magazine	Criminal
34.	K.M. Mathew v. State of Kerala and Anr.	1991	Daily Newspaper	Criminal
35.	M.A. Rumugam v. Kittu alias Krishnamoorthy	2008	Newspapers	Criminal
36.	G.X. Francis And Ors. vs Banke Bihari Singh And Anr.	1958	Newspapers	Criminal
37.	Sukra Mahto vs Basdeo Kumar Mahto &. Anr	1971	Newspapers	Criminal
38.	Rajendra Sail v. Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association and Ors.	2005	Newspapers	Criminal
39.	Sanjoy Narayan Editor-in-Chief Hindustan and Ors. v. Hon. High Court of Allahabad thr. R.G.	2011	Newspapers	Criminal (Contempt)
40.	In Re: S. Mulgaokar	1978	Newspapers	Criminal (Contempt); defamation of judges
41.	State of Haryana v. Balwant Singh	2003	(Minor but important principle discussed)	Civil
42.	Government of Tamil Nadu v. Badrinath and Ors.	1988	Newspapers	Civil/Service
43.	Melepurath Sankunni Ezhuthassan v. Thekittil Geopalankutty Nair	1985	Unclear, but important point discussed	Civil
44.	Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Anr. v. Parshuram Babaram Sawant	2011	Telecast	Civil
45.	Joseph M. Puthussery v. T.S. John and Ors.	2010	Journals	Civil
46.	Dr. Subramaniam Swamy v. Ramakrishna Hegde	1989	Press Conference/Newspapers	Civil
47.	M.J. Zakharia Sait v. T.M. Mohammed and Ors.	1990	Newspaper	Civil
48.	Naresh Shridhar Mirajkar and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Anr.	1965	Weekly publication	Civil
49.	Dr. Mehmood Nayyar Azam v. State of Chattisgarh and ors.	2010	Photograph	Criminal
50.	West Bengal State Electricity Board v. Dilip Kumar Ray	2006	Newspapers	Civil

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