A court in Mumbai on Wednesday temporarily restrained actor Kamaal R Khan (KRK) from uploading any defamatory posts or videos on social media against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and held that a person’s reputation is “purest treasure and the most precious perfume of life”. Civil court judge CV Marathe passed this interim order in a defamation suit filed by Salman against KRK. The superstar and his ventures had filed the suit following a series of defamatory tweets and videos posted by KRK. The court on Wednesday restrained KRK, his agents from directly or indirectly making and uploading videos, posting, re-posting, tweeting, re-tweeting, giving interviews, corresponding, communicating, uploading, printing, publishing, re-publishing any further or other defamatory/slanderous content, posts, messages, tweets, videos, interviews, communications and correspondence in relation to the Salman Khan, his business, present or future projects, including Radhe (a Salman Khan-starrer film which released last month).
This temporary injunction shall continue till the final disposal of the suit. The court, in its order, held that a person is identified by his name and a good name is better than great riches. “A good reputation is an element of personal security and is protected by the constitution equally with the right to the enjoyment of life, liberty and property,” it held.” If the defendant (Kamaal Khan) is permitted to continue the use of such defamatory words against against the plaintiff (Salman Khan) they will cause irreparable loss to the image of plaintiff in the society,” it said. Last month, Salman Khan sued Kamaal R Khan aka KRK for defamation. While KRK said it was in retaliation to an unfavourable review of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, Salman’s lawyers maintained that the suit was in response to allegations of corruption and money laundering against Being Human. Meanwhile, KRK claimed in an earlier tweet that more than 20 people from Bollywood called to extend their support to him in his legal battle with Salman. “Now I don’t care, what will be the result. But I will fight for all those people. I can’t allow so many people to get disappointed. I won’t break their trust,” he had added.