HC says entire book cannot be stopped over a few passages

Drawing a distinction between restraining specific allegedly defamatory material and stopping an entire published work, the Delhi High Court has held that a pre-trial injunction against a book cannot extend beyond the passages found, at the interim stage, to warrant such protection.

In a significant ruling for authors and publishers, the High Court modified a blanket restraint imposed on “Yes Man: The Untold Story of Rana Kapoor”, authored by Pavan Chand Lall and published by HarperCollins, allowing the remaining portions of the book to remain outside the scope of the injunction.