Ahmedabad: A civil court here on Saturday vacated an ex parte and interim injunction imposed on news web portal ‘The Wire’ against further use and follow-up of its story in October about the astronomical rise in the business of BJP President Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah after the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.
The court had originally on October 12 granted Jay Shah an all-encompassing stay order which prevented ‘The Wire’, its editors and the author of the story, ‘The Golden Touch of Jay Amit Shah’, from taking the story any further.
The injunction was against, “using and publishing or printing in any electronic, print, digital or any other media, or broadcast, telecast, print and publish in any manner including by way of interview, holding TV talks, debate and debates, news items, programmes in any language on the basis of the article published in ‘The Wire’ (dated 8/10/2010) either directly or indirectly on the subject matter with respect to the plaintiff in any manner whatsoever”.
The portal had challenged the injunction contending that it was an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of the press, and that there was nothing defamatory about the original article which was based entirely on public records and information provided by Jay Shah.
