Section 3
Libel/defamation
3. Libel/defamation :
If a person by way of writing or words or signs or understandable symbols accuses another person of any charge or publishes such matter with intent to damage that other person’s character or knowingly or having reason to believe that it will make such a damage, the person shall be deemed to have libeled that other
person. Explanation:
(1) Where any charge/accusation is made against a deceased and that act would damage his or her character while he or she was alive and has been done with intent to injure the spirit of his or her family or other near relative of him or her, such an act may be held as a libelous act.
(2) An accusation made satirically or un-straightforwardly (indirectly) may be held as a libelous act.
(2a) 2 An accusation or publicity made knowingly to damage other’s character or with motive to make a false allegation may be held as a libelous act.
(3) No act shall be held to be a libelous act damaging the prestige of a person unless an allegation is so made directly or indirectly that it, in the opinion of other persons, undermines the person’s moral or intellectual character or character or reputation relating to race or occupation or that it, in a believable manner,
indicates that the person’s body is in a hateful situation or in a situation normally considered to be degrading.
If a person by way of writing or words or signs or understandable symbols accuses another person of any charge or publishes such matter with intent to damage that other person’s character or knowingly or having reason to believe that it will make such a damage, the person shall be deemed to have libeled that other
person. Explanation:
(1) Where any charge/accusation is made against a deceased and that act would damage his or her character while he or she was alive and has been done with intent to injure the spirit of his or her family or other near relative of him or her, such an act may be held as a libelous act.
(2) An accusation made satirically or un-straightforwardly (indirectly) may be held as a libelous act.
(2a) 2 An accusation or publicity made knowingly to damage other’s character or with motive to make a false allegation may be held as a libelous act.
(3) No act shall be held to be a libelous act damaging the prestige of a person unless an allegation is so made directly or indirectly that it, in the opinion of other persons, undermines the person’s moral or intellectual character or character or reputation relating to race or occupation or that it, in a believable manner,
indicates that the person’s body is in a hateful situation or in a situation normally considered to be degrading.