Supreme Court: Allegations made in good faith in a complaint to a legitimate authority are exempt from the defamation.

Keywords: Defamation, Section 499 (exception 8) IPC. The Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that allegations made in a complaint against a person in good faith to those who have legal authority over that person do not constitute the crime of defamation. [Kishore Balkrishna Nand v. State of Maharashtra and Another] A Read more