New Delhi, January 29, 2021 – The Indian media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman, and Company Limited (BCCL) is undermining its own integrity with a defamation suit against the news website and media watchdog Newslaundry, and should withdraw the suit immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On January 19, BCCL filed a civil defamation suit in the Bombay High Court, seeking 1 billion rupees (US$13.7 million) in damages from Newslaundry, a privately owned news website and media watchdog, Abhinandan Sekhri, the co-founder of Newslaundry, told CPJ in a phone interview. The suit also...
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