The Bombay High Court while hearing Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's plea on defamation against some media channels, pulled up the actor's lawyer.
The court said that the actress’ demand for supervising editorial content is 'dangerous'. The court asked her lawyer, what is defamatory about saying something about Shilpa Shetty? The court said, Shilpa Shetty chose a life in the public eye, and there is no law that says what can be or cannot be shown by media channels or what can be posted on social media. The judge also stated that reportage on what the police has said is by definition never defamatory.
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Shilpa Shetty's lawyer argued that what transpired between Shilpa and her husband during a raid at their residence, essentially something that was personal, was shown as news. To this, the Court asked, how is news of her crying defamatory? The incident happened in the presence of outsiders.
In her plea, Shilpa Shetty submitted that certain media platforms were “smearing her reputation with the aim of sensationalising news and increasing their readership and viewership.
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The crime branch of Mumbai Police also took a statement from Shilpa Shetty in connection with the pornography case. The actress reportedly told police that she had no idea about the content of the Hot Shots app through which her husband Raj Kundra allegedly distributed pornographic films. Shilpa said she did not know about the content of the app, nor did she interfere in her husband’s business.