It
was
earlier
reported
that
actress
Shilpa
Shetty
had
filed
a
defamation
suit
in
Bombay
High
Court
against
29
defendants
that
included
web
portals,
media
outlets
and
unknown
persons
for
'false
reporting
and
maligning
her
image',
post
the
arrest
of
her
businessman-husband
Raj
Kundra
on
July
19,
in
a
case
related
to
adult
film
business
racket.
Now,
according
to
a
news
report
in
the
Scroll,
the
Bombay
High
Court
has
ordered
removal
of
the
videos
featuring
the
actress.
The
Court
observed
that
a
UP-based
news
channel
needs
to
take
down
their
video
on
Shilpa,
which
they
stated
is
allegedly
accusing
the
actress
of
being
'duplicitous
at
a
personal
level.'
Not
only
this,
but
a
host
of
an
entertainment
channel
and
an
entertainment
journalist
has
also
taken
down
their
respective
videos
on
Shilpa
Shetty
after
receiving
a
defamation
suit
by
her
on
Thursday
(July
29).
The
two
have
also
undertaken
to
not
upload
the
video
again.
However,
Justice
Gautam
Patel
who
passed
the
order
mentioned
that
this
was
not
a
gag
on
the
media.
Patel
revealed
that
not
all
statements
are
defamatory
that
were
made
by
the
defendants
and
that
reporting
something
that
has
already
been
said
by
the
police
officials,
does
not
fall
under
the
category
of
defamatory.
Justice
Gautam
Patel
said,
"The
line
between
freedom
of
press
and
right
to
privacy
will
have
to
be
balanced.
It
is
possible
that
freedom
of
speech
may
have
to
be
narrowly
tailored.
But
it
is
not
possible
to
ignore
the
constitutional
pinning
of
privacy
nor
to
say
that
if
a
person
is
a
public
figure,
that
person
is
deemed
to
have
sacrificed
his
right
to
privacy."
Apart
from
this,
the
court
questioned
how
reporting
about
Shilpa
Shetty
crying
falls
under
defamation.
According
to
Bar
And
Bench,
Justice
Gautam
Patel
said,
"Are
you
saying
if
you
cannot
say
anything
nice
about
Shilpa
Shetty,
do
not
say
anything
at
all?
What
you
are
asking
me
to
do
can
have
a
very
chilling
effect
on
the
freedom
of
the
press."
According
to
an
earlier
news
report
in
ANI,
Shilpa
Shetty
had
urged
the
court
to
issue
a
"permanent
and
mandatory
injunction
restraining
her
defendants,
(themselves
and
through
their
servants,
agents,
assigns
and/or
any
person
claiming
by
or
through
them)
from
making
and/or
publishing
and/or
reproducing
and/or
circulating
and/or
communicating,
any
derogatory
and
defamatory
statements."