Case Law Analysis
|Gauhati High Court
Section 7 Press Registration Act grants proprietor immunity | Shields newspaper owners from criminal defamation : Gauhati HC
A newspaper proprietor merely as owner/shareholder cannot be prosecuted for criminal defamation under Section 7 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, the Gauhati HC held, shielding passive owners from liability for content they did not create.