SC:Defamation, Editor is liable.


Office copy of declaration to be prima facie evidence. The Managing Editor, Resident Editor or Chief

Editor of a newspaper are not immune from prosecution for libellous matter published in the news-paper. Under Section 7 of The Press and Registration of Books Act 1867, there is a presumption that the Editor whose name is printed in the newspaper as Editor shall be held to be the Editor in any civil or criminal proceedings in respect of that publication and the production of a copy of the newspaper containing his name printed thereon as Editor shall be deemed to be sufficient evidence to prove that fact, and as the 'Editor' has been defined as the person who controls the selection of the matter that is published in a newspaper, the presumption would go to the extent of holding that he was the person who controlled the selection of the matter that was published in the newspaper.

Case: Citation: K.M. Mathew Vs. K.A. Abraham.
AIR 2002 SC 2989: 2002 AIR SCW 3500.
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