The recent Cyber Defamation case, first of its kind in India, at Delhi's District Court came to an end on 23 April, 2007. The matter related to maintaining of the blog by the wife (i.e. defendant) on BlogSpot.com, where in she had discussed about her personal matters, which to some extent made a reference to Husband (i.e. Plaintiff) directly and indirectly. Plaintiff claimed compensation of Rs 10 lakhs in damages.It was alleged by the plaintiff that the Defendant has tried to destroy the reputation and character of the Plaintiff by publishing false details about the Plaintiff in the Internet blogs.

It was alleged by the plaintiff that from the perusal of the entire contents of the blogs, it is apparent that the Defendant has tried to destroy the reputation and character of the Plaintiff by publishing false details about the Plaintiff in the Internet blogs. The Plaintiff who is heading an entire business unit in some company, has got high reputation in society, professional world and among the colleagues and on account of defamatory imputations made by the Defendant the prestige & reputation of the Plaintiff has been lowered in the eyes of his friends and office colleagues. It was further claimed that people were bumping into the scandalous blogs that are available in the open, i.e. the website can be open and seen by anyone anywhere in the world. Few emails received from Plaintiff's friends were produced as evidence.

In defense, it was as submitted that the Blog was a private Blog, not open to the world, to be shared between husband and wife only. Further no publication ever took place of the URL, i.e. web-address of the blog on behalf of the defendant. It should be noted that on the Internet i.e. in the virtual world, the creation of a website is not open or known to the world of visitors, till its web address is published, as it is the only means to access anything in the virtual world, as nothing in reality otherwise exists. Further it was submitted that Plaintiff has generated false electronic documents, as any kind of emails can be produced by web programming methods!!!

To Be Coninued...