YouTuber Gaurav Taneja wins defamation case against Live Mint’s journalist Shepali Bhatt, who had put out an article allegedly claiming that Gaurav Taneja’s daily vlogs are often called out for misogyny, child abuse and political propaganda.
Popular YouTuber and staunch Hindu, Gaurav Taneja aka Flying Beast on Thursday announced via his Twitter handle that the Delhi High Court had ordered Live Mint, a subsidiary of Hindustan Times to remove all the Tweets and articles that were directed to defame the YouTuber and his family.
For those who don’t know, journalist Shepali Bhatt had put out a propaganda article on Live Mint targeting that Gaurav Taneja’s daily vlogs are often called out for misogyny, child abuse and political propaganda. This was after the YouTuber has tweeted a picture of himself with his wife and daughter performing a housewarming ritual.
In the tweet, Gaurav Taneja had also claimed that the Hindu ritual performing Havan or ‘Agnihotra’ purifies the air and also removes the pollutants.
As his social media handle was getting a good traffic because of him being ‘connected to the Sanatani roots’. But this was enough for Leftist trolls to suffer heartburn and they started crying foul. Few of the so-called Intellectuals and self-declared experts and self-appointed scientists/doctors tweeted against him, but that didn’t seemed to work.
Following that journalist Shepali Bhatt had written an article on Live Mint which was literally asking popular brands like Airtel, Mama Earth, Google India, Tata Cliq and several others to disassociate from supporting the popular Flying Beats channel, and thus canceling him because he didn’t cater to their bogey of hinduphobia.
And now yesterday, Gaurav had put out a tweet informing his followers that he had filed Rs 2 crore defamation case against the website and the journalist. Not only that, the Delhi High Court had accepted Gaurav and his wife Ritu Rathee’s lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against the financial newspaper Mint.
Moreover, thanking his legal team, the popular YouTuber and a former Air Asia pilot also slammed journalist Shepali Bhatt and her media house for peddling a vicious attack against him for his faith towards Hinduism.
Gaurav called out the journalist and her website on Instagram and Twitter and wrote, ‘Certain unethical journo peddle a vicious attack against me because some wear their identity badge proudly. Now all the articles and tweets by Shephali Bhatt are to be taken down as per Delhi High Court’s order. Such journos insult “Norms of Journalistic conduct”’
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