Court directs Congress party worker to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to hospital in Mangaluru for derogatory remark
The Hindu
Court orders Congress worker to pay ₹5 lakh for defamatory social media remarks against Mangaluru's Mangala Nursing Home.
A court in Mangaluru has directed Congress party worker and social activist P. Sunil Bajilakeri to pay a compensation of ₹5 lakh to Mangala Nursing Home for posting derogatory comments on social media against the hospital.
On January 22, 2nd Additional Senior Civil Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mangaluru, H. Satish, partly allowed the suit of the hospital, and ordered compensation of ₹5 lakh, with 6% interest per annum.
Bajilakeri was directed to pay the compensation amount within three months from the date of decree. The magistrate restrained Bajilakeri from making and publishing defamatory statements or photos, pictures, articles relating to the hospital in any social platform, TV news channel, and newspaper. Further, he was restrained from trespassing into any portion of the hospital, or causing any damage to the property.
In the suit for perpetual injunction and claiming compensation, P. Ganapathi and Anitha G. Bhat – partners in the hospital – said, during the first COVID-19 wave, the hospital was recognised by the district administration as a covid hospital. About 105 COVID patients were admitted and 105 patients got discharged in the period.
A man named Sadashivam was admitted to the hospital on September 1, 2020, with COVID-19 infection. Despite advise by the hospital to the patient and his family members to get treatment in another hospital to get claims under Ayushman Bharath scheme of the government, they insisted on continuation of treatment in Mangala hospital.
Sadashivam succumbed on September 13, 2020. Considering the economic condition of the family of the deceased, the hospital provided a concession of ₹1.49 lakh in the total bill amount of ₹3.12 lakh. After adjusting mediclaim policy of the deceased, the hospital told family members to pay the balance ₹60,000.
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