Hi,
Finally an update on the Goa paid news story. An interesting one. A criminal defamation complaint under section 500 of the Indian Penal Code has been filed against me at a trial court in Goa following the paid news expose in October.
A source was kind enough to give me a copy of the complaint filed against me. Interestingly the defamation case has been filed by Tulsidas Desai, Herald's marketing manager, who struck the paid news deal with me on phone and email, while I was posing as fictitious budding politician 'Bernard Costa'.
Please find the nine pages of the defamation case below, which was incidentally filed on 11/11/11. :) A legal source gave me a copy of the complaint a couple of days back.
The complaint accuses me of doing the paid news story "out of sheer frustration" by using "the facilities of the internet to start publishing his own fanciful ideas, which were basically 'anti' in nature. His famous (or rather notorious) blog for some time was titled 'penpricks' where he freely indulged in mud slinging against one and all".
This blog www.paidnewsingoa.blogspot.com has also been described a a 'nefarious activity' by the complainant.
Tulsidas also claimed in his complaint that the conversation about the paid news deal never happened.
For more untruths, you could run through the scanned images attached.
The criminal defamation complaint amounts to clear intimidation of a whistle blower, exposing an unethical practice, in this case the phenomenon of paid news.
I will contest this bullshit.
Thank you for all your support and look forward to more of it. Watch this space for more updates as they happen
Mayabhushan
Finally an update on the Goa paid news story. An interesting one. A criminal defamation complaint under section 500 of the Indian Penal Code has been filed against me at a trial court in Goa following the paid news expose in October.
A source was kind enough to give me a copy of the complaint filed against me. Interestingly the defamation case has been filed by Tulsidas Desai, Herald's marketing manager, who struck the paid news deal with me on phone and email, while I was posing as fictitious budding politician 'Bernard Costa'.
Please find the nine pages of the defamation case below, which was incidentally filed on 11/11/11. :) A legal source gave me a copy of the complaint a couple of days back.
The complaint accuses me of doing the paid news story "out of sheer frustration" by using "the facilities of the internet to start publishing his own fanciful ideas, which were basically 'anti' in nature. His famous (or rather notorious) blog for some time was titled 'penpricks' where he freely indulged in mud slinging against one and all".
This blog www.paidnewsingoa.blogspot.com has also been described a a 'nefarious activity' by the complainant.
Tulsidas also claimed in his complaint that the conversation about the paid news deal never happened.
For more untruths, you could run through the scanned images attached.
The criminal defamation complaint amounts to clear intimidation of a whistle blower, exposing an unethical practice, in this case the phenomenon of paid news.
I will contest this bullshit.
Thank you for all your support and look forward to more of it. Watch this space for more updates as they happen
Mayabhushan
1 comment:
Whats your retaliation plan then?
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