The Delhi High Court has awarded Rs 5 lakh as damages to TV Today Network for defamatory posts on X against the channel and its journalist Rajdeep Sardesai after it aired an interview with actor Rhea Chakraborty in 2020, Live Law reported on Friday.

Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav held that the X posts were “highly defamatory” and “remain unsubstantiated by the defendant, despite having been afforded sufficient opportunity”.

The case was filed by TV Today Network in 2020 against Anurag Srivastava, who runs the X handles @theanuragkts and @theanuragoffice.

Shortly after the interview was broadcast, Srivastava made X posts using derogatory language against Sardesai.

He also alleged that Chakraborty had bribed him and the network to conduct the interview.

Chakraborty was charged

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