Delhi HC requests Twitter to take down tweets by historian Audrey Truschke against author Vikram Sampath
Earlier, court had restrained historians including Audrey Truschke, Ananya Chakravarti from publishing any defamatory content about Vikram Sampath
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New Delhi, February 24: The Delhi High Court on Thursday, asked Twitter to take down several tweets made by historian Audrey Truschke. In these, plagiarism allegations were made against author & historian Vikram Sampath, related to two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Justice Bansal noted that the continued publication of said letter has been causing considerable damage to the plaintiff's reputation and career. Court further asked the counsel for the plaintiff to supply the copy of the plaint to the defendants and sought their response within 4 weeks. The court fixed the date for April 1, for further hearing in the matter.
It is submitted that the said allegation is absurd inasmuch as a perusal of the article in question would clearly establish beyond all reasonable doubt that Vinayak Chaturvedi has been cited. References are there in the article and have given extensive and exhaustive footnotes in the book. The relevant extract has been reproduced, stated the petiti
Advocate Raghav Awasthi and Advocate Mukesh Sharma appeared for plaintiff Vikram Sampath. Earlier, in an interim order, court had restrained historians including Audrey Truschke, Ananya Chakravarti, Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, Rohit Chopra, Associate Professor of Communications at Santa Clara University, from publishing any defamatory content about Vikram Sampath and observing that the plaintiff has made a prima facie case.
Delhi HC asks Twitter to take down several tweets made by historian Audrey Truschke against Vikram Sampath
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Recently, historian Audrey Truschke accused Vikram Sampath of plagiarism and wrote a letter dated February 11, 2022, to the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in London and made serious allegations of plagiarism against Sampath with respect to his biography of Savarkar. Sampath is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Justice Bansal noted that the continued publication of said letter has been causing considerable damage to the plaintiff's reputation and career. Court further asked the counsel for the plaintiff to supply the copy of the plaint to the defendants and sought their response within 4 weeks. The court fixed the date for April 1, for further hearing in the matter.
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The Court is presently hearing a civil suit filed by Vikram Sampath against other historians who made alleged defamatory tweets against him. Sampath also sought a decree of damages of Rs 2,00,00,100 in favour of the plaintiff and against defendants. The petition stated that the said letter makes it clear that allegation against the plaintiff is that in an essay written for the journal, plaintiff has plagiarized from an essay written by one Vinayak Chaturvedi.
It is submitted that the said allegation is absurd inasmuch as a perusal of the article in question would clearly establish beyond all reasonable doubt that Vinayak Chaturvedi has been cited. References are there in the article and have given extensive and exhaustive footnotes in the book. The relevant extract has been reproduced, stated the petiti
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It further added that the alleged defamatory letter in question is being quoted extensively on Twitter by unscrupulous elements and Twitter users. It is clear that the same is part of the motivated smear campaign against the plaintiff and every time the defamatory material is being retweeted, a new cause of action arises.
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