ADDICTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED & ANR. vs ADITYA GARG & ORS.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 29th August, 2024 Date of Decision: 20th February, 2025 CS(OS) 570/2024 & I.A. 34094-34098/2024 ADDICTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED & ANR. .....Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Raghav Awasthi, Adv. (Through VC) versus ADITYA GARG & ORS. .....Defendants Through: Mr. Himanshu Bhushan and Mr. Shagun Srivastava, Advs. for D-2 % CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA JUDGMENT MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J: 1. The captioned suit has been filed seeking a decree of permanent injunction along with damages. The subject matter of the suit are the tweets published by defendant nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 on the social media platform known as ‘X’ (formerly ‘Twitter’), which has been impleaded as defendant no. 3 in the present suit. It is the case of plaintiff nos. 1 and 2 that the impugned tweets are harmful and derogatory to the said plaintiffs and has defamed plaintiffs in Cyber Space. 2. This Court considered it fit to examine the plaint and the documents on the basis of a demurer and assess the contentions therein, particularly 3. In the plaint, the plaintiffs have challenged two (2) tweets published by defendant no. 1 and one (1) twe