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Publish apology for post calling prof 'sex predator': Supreme Court to ex-chancellor

NEW DELHI: At a time when social media is being misused for posting and circulating fake and defamatory messages, Supreme Court sent a clear signal that one has to pay the price for indulging in such activity and directed ex-chancellor of

Maulana Azad National Urdu University

(MANUU),

Firoz Bakht Ahmed

, to publish an unconditional apology in “bold letters” on first page of a newspaper and pay Rs 1 lakh to a professor of the university for calling him a “

sex predator

” in a Facebook post which was widely shared.

Disapproving his conduct of making baseless accusation against Prof

Ehtesham Ahmad Khan

who filed a criminal

defamation case

against him, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra said he, before making such wild allegations, ought to have thought about the consequences of the same.

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