Court orders to remove fake defamatory video against Paradise

Hyderabad: Following a Civil Defamation suit filed by Paradise Food Court against a fake video posted by an online social media channel, the City Civil Courts, Secunderabad, has ordered action against the perpetrators and has extended action against anyone involved in circulating the video from the origin.

The Court has ordered to takedown the misleading video, comments, posts, updates vide the social media accounts or any other links wherein defamatory and unpopular statements are made recently by the Instagram account ‘telugucrimefiles2023’ to defame Paradise Food Court. Further, the court has granted an ad-interim injunction in favour of Paradise and against the channel, its owner and other account where the video has been posted, thereby restraining them and their men or any other person on behalf from making or publishing any defamatory statements, posts, updates, videos, audios, articles, comments, etc against or concerning brand Paradise on any public or private platforms including in all social media, internet, websites, TV Interviews, all forms of print and electronic media or through any other medium.

The case was filed by Paradise against the channel for circulating the misleading video uploaded negligently without checking the content of the video to spread falsehood with an oblique motive to tarnish its reputation.

The city-based restaurant chain has filed a suit in the court seeking the perpetrators – Shaik Mansoor, Mahboob Hussain, TelanganaCrimeFiles2023 and ARA TV – to jointly pay Rs 3 crore towards the damages through acts to defame and tarnish their reputation. Paradise hopes that justice is delivered.

Paradise believes that the customer and the social media channel have apparently hatched a criminal conspiracy with some vested interest and ill-motivated persons to extort money and defame the company in the public thereby heaving harming business interest to the tune of crores of rupees.

Talking about the court order on the unfair concocted video, Gautam Gupta, CEO of Paradise Food Court, said: “The court has accepted our plea and granted ad-interim injunction against social media channel (telugucrimefiles2023) and those involved in circulating the fake video. This also extends to anybody who is circulating from the origin. It should also serve as a lesson to many such other ill-intentioned people who wish to damage the reputation of businesses and jeopardise the customer trust.”