HC restrains YouTuber from posting defamatory video against motivational speaker Sandeep Maheshwari
New Delhi, Jan 15: The Delhi High Court on Monday restrained Vikash Kotnala, the YouTube channel partner of entrepreneur Vivek Bindra, from posting defamatory videos or any other material against motivational speaker Sandeep Maheshwari.
In an interim order, Justice Prateek Jalan said prima facie there was a link between Kotnala and Bindra, also a motivational speaker, and Kotnala's videos amount to circumventing a Faridabad civil court's order passed last month that restrained both Maheshwari and Bindra from posting defamatory material against each other.
On December 22, 2023, a civil court in Haryana's Faridabad had said in order to preserve the peace, both the parties (Bindra and Maheshwari) were restrained from uploading any defamatory/ disparaging video on social media or any other online or offline mode against each other. The case, filed by Bindra against Maheshwari, is listed before the Faridabad court on Tuesday.
The high court was hearing a plea by Maheshwari seeking its direction to restrain Kotnala from making any defamatory or disparaging video against him.
The court said Maheshwari has made a prima facie case in support of his claim that irreparable harm would be caused if an injunction order was not passed.
"I am of the view that the publication of material by defendant no. 3 (Kotnala), who claims to be channel partner of defendant no. 2 (company owned by Bindra), has the effect of circumventing the injunction granted by the civil court and has the potential to cause irreparable prejudice to the plaintiff (Maheshwari) who has also been subjected to injunction.
"The balance of convenience is also in the plaintiff's favour Till the next date of hearing, defendant no. 3 is restrained from publishing any defamatory/ disparaging video against the plaintiff on any online or offline mode in line with the orders passed by the civil court," the judge said.
Senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, representing Maheshwari, argued that Kotnala has been propped by Bindra to make allegations against Maheshwari.
He referred to two videos posted by Kotnala where he alleged that Maheshwari was trying to extort money from Bindra and that he (Maheshwari) was using students to oust a competitor (Bindra) from the market.
The lawyer said Bindra was also made a party to the suit but no order was being sought against him as he and Maheshwari are bound by the civil court's order.
During the hearing, the judge observed that social media was a strange world and that there was some sort of war which was starting on these YouTube channels.
"It is not that I am seeing this for the first time. There seems to be a very low level of discourse during this fighting between some rivals," the judge said.
Maheshwari and Bindra have been engaged in a war of words since December 11, 2023, when the former released a video titled Big Scam Exposed'. While the video did not name Bindra, social media users made the connection.
The allegation was that Bindra was running a scam and fooling young people by providing a 10-day MBA course.
In a few days, Maheshwari's video garnered millions of views after which he claimed that he was being pressured to take down the video.
Bindra, however, denied any wrongdoing and released a video on his YouTube channel answering Maheshwari's allegations.
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Mohsin's fifer helps LSG restrict KKR to 155/7 despite Rinku's 83
Lucknow (PTI): Lucknow Super Giants pacer Mohsin Khan added another sordid chapter to Kolkata Knight Riders' batting woes, taking five wickets to restrict the three-time champions to a modest 155 for seven in their IPL match here on Sunday.
Mohsin’s 5 for 23, a personal best for the left-arm pacer in this format, tore apart an already struggling KKR batting unit, as he snaffled the cream wickets of Ajinkya Rahane, Tim Seifert, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell and Anukul Roy.
Rinku Singh (83 not out, 51 balls) made a well-paced fifty and punished Mohammed Shami in the 19th over for 6, 4, 4 and the smoked four sixes in a row against spinner Digvesh Rathi as KKR made 43 runs in the last two overs to go past the 150-run mark.
But his fifty remained a lone act, as Mohsin firmly stood in the limelight.
His bowling ethos were rooted in simple tactics — bang the ball into the black soil pitch to gain bounce or use cutters at various pace to keep the batters guessing.
Mohsin, who started the night with a wicket maiden, showed his variety across two dismissals.
He followed Rahane with a fuller ball as the batter tried to go over the covers, but the ball’s trajectory forced the KKR skipper to just slice the ball up for a simple catch for Aiden Markram.
The 27-year-old stayed calm when Green, who looked comfortable out there while smashing George Linde for two successive sixes, slammed him for a huge maximum.
Two balls later, Mohsin dug one short, challenging Green (34) to go for the pull and the Australian all-rounder took the bait.
The into-the-body angle worked again as Green could only sky the ball to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
Green’s ouster also ended a fifth wicket alliance worth 42 with Rinku Singh.
Bizarre dismissal of Raghuvanshi
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If the existing turmoil was not enough, KKR had to bear the dejection of seeing Angkrish Raghuvanshi getting dismissed obstructing the field.
On the final ball of the fifth over from Prince Yadav, Raghuvanshi nudged one towards mid-on and set off for a single, only to be rejected by Green.
Raghuvanshi put in a dive to save himself but he came in the line of the throw from Shami.
Subsequently, third umpire Rohit Pandit accepted LSG’s appeal and decided that the batter’s turning radius was more than required, eventually resulting in the batter’s dismissal in a rare manner.
