Suing for damages

IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/06/2011

Arindam Chaudhuri of IIPM has surpassed his own previous record of lawsuits against those who write about his institute by suing The Caravan magazine for Rs 500 million for “grave harassment and injury”. Like a similar case against Careers 360 this one too has been filed in Assam. The magazine wrote a cover story on him which many more people will now access and read than would have been the case if Chaudhuri had ignored it. The magazine has said it will fight the case. The lawsuit is also against Penguin and Google.

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