Updated On: 14 September, 2012 10:17 PM IST | | PTI
Asking self-styled godman Nirmal Baba to stop giving "absurd" or "illogical" solutions to his disciples, the Delhi High Court today restrained a vernacular media portal from writing or publishing any defamatory material against him.
In a 22-page judgement, Justice Kailash Gambhir came down heavily on the Baba, who had sought a direction to stop Hindi portal bhadas4media from posting alleged defamatory articles, for suggesting "highly irrational" and "weird" solutions to disciples like "to eat rabri' and 'masala dosa to overcome their miseries" and said they are bound to result in backlash by the media and other such agencies.u00a0
The court, while granting conditional injunction against the web site, said filing of defamation suit is a right of Baba and "but the same cannot be allowed to become a lethal weapon in sabotaging the freedom of the press."