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New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday (March 20) passed an interim judgement ordering news platform Newslaundry to take down certain ‘disparaging’ content about the TV Today group and its channels – Aaj Tak and India Today, Bar and Bench reported.

A division bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla was hearing two cross appeals filed by TV Today and Newslaundry.

The material that the Delhi high court has ordered to be taken down includes those in which Newslaundry referred to certain TV Today content using the remarks “shit”, a “shit show”, “high on weed or opium” and “your punctuation is as bad as your journalism”.

“We are in agreement with the learned single judge’s finding that a prima facie case of commercial disparagement has been made out. The statements identified in the impugned order [of the single judge] are clearly without any independent standard and are........

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