What can be the grounds to file for defamation ?

593 votes

It all depends on the nature of libel published against you if they have tarnished your images by the things or publishing the libel then you can validly file for defamation and since as per the facts of the case if the necessary harm has been committed and the response of the department has created some suspicion or bad images in the general public then definitely you can file for defamation. Give the complete facts of the case

Advocate Suneel Kumar LawRato

959 votes

as per the details given by you, yes you can file a suit for defamation against the education department or you can bring the charges for mental harassment. if you want any further assistance you can contact me,

Advocate Nitin Kumar Jain LawRato

849 votes

Defamation is both civil as well as criminal. For giving remedy you can sue for damages. Alternatively, the criminal complaint will be for seeking action for damaging the reputation. In either case legal notice is recommended before initiating any action.

LawRato LawRato

608 votes

499. Defamation.—Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter expected, to defame that person. Explanation 1.—It may amount to defamation to impute anything to a deceased person, if the imputation would harm the reputation of that person if living, and is intended to be hurtful to the feelings of his family or other near relatives. Explanation 2.—It may amount to defamation to make an imputation concerning a company or an association or collection of persons as such. Explanation 3.—An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed ironically, may amount to defamation. Explanation 4.—No imputation is said to harm a person’s reputa­tion, unless that imputation directly or indirectly, in the estimation of others, lowers the moral or intellectual character of that person, or lowers the character of that person in respect of his caste or of his calling, or lowers the credit of that person, or causes it to be believed that the body of that person is in a loathsome state, or in a state generally considered as disgrace­ful.

Check this where you fit in? Also IT Act will come into play.

Advocate Anand Kumar LawRato