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

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$~ * 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 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:HEMANT CS(OS) 570/2024 Page 1 of 54 PRATAP SINGH Signing Date:22.02.2025 14:09:29 since it was prima facie apparent to this Court that there was no cause of action for defamation on the basis of which the suit was filed. Post the detailed assessment of the case at hand given below, this Court indeed concluded that plaint fails to disclose cause of action and, therefore, the present plaint ought to be rejected. Case setup by the Plaintiffs 3. In the plaint, the plaintiffs have challenged two (2) tweets published by defendant no. 1 and one (1) tweet published by defendant no. 4, which forms part of a ‘Conversation Thread No.1’ initiated by defendant no. 1 o