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.