The Delhi High Court on Friday restrained historian Dr. Audrey Truschke and other persons from publishing any defamatory material against historian Dr Vikram Sampath against him till April 1 on Twitter as well as other online or offline platforms.
Passing an ad interim order, Justice Amit Bansal also restrained the defendants from publishing the letter dated February 11 addressed to Royal Historical Society in London raising serious allegations of plagiarism against Sampath, till the next date of hearing.
Till the next date of hearing, defendants 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 are restrained from publishing the letter or any other other defamatory material with respect to the plaintiff in any forum or Twitter as well as any other online or offline platforms,” the Court ordered.
The Court was hearing a suit filed by Sampath against Audrey Truschke and other persons over a letter sent by them to Royal Historical Society raising allegations of plagiarism against him with respect to a journal publication and his two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and some alleged defamatory tweets made pursuant thereto.
The suit stated that Historian Audrey Truschke and other persons namely Ananya Chakravarti and Rohit Chopra wrote the letter dated February 11 to Royal Historical Society in London raising serious allegations of plagiarism.
It has been stated in the suit that a perusal of the letter will show that the crux of the allegation made against Sampath is that in an essay written for the Journal, he had plagiarized from an essay written by one Vinayak Chaturvedi.
Furthermore, the suit also referred to some alleged defamatory tweets made by Abhishek Baxi and Ashok Swain alleging that the same were posted with a mala fide intent to hit Sampath’s professional reputation not only at the national level but also across the whole world.
