Jet sues journo

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/12/2016

Senior journalist Josy Joseph has been slapped with a civil defamation suit by Jet Airways and its chairman Naresh Goyal, reports Scroll.in. The Rs 1000 crore suit comes after Joseph alleged in his book A Feast of Vultures that the airline company had links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Publisher Harper Collins and Outlook magazine, which published an extract have been sued as well. Earlier examples of Indian companies sending journalists legal notices for their books include defamation notices sent by Reliance to Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and his co-authors for their book Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis, and the Sahara Group's case against Mint editor Tamal Bandopadhyay for his book ‘Sahara: The Untold Story’.

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