The Supreme Court today quashed a criminal defamation case filed against India Today founder and editor-in-chief Aroon Purie over a report that appeared in the magazine in 2007.
However, according to Bar and Bench, the bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi did not quash the case against Saurabh Shukla, the journalist who wrote the report. “We have accepted the appeal preferred by Poorie,” the court said, “and dismissed the appeal by the journalist.”
