BANGALORE : Dakshina Kannada District in-charge Minister J Krishna Palemar who

failed in his attempt to secure a stay order from the Bangalore City Civil Court against

Karavali Ale and Gowri Lankesh for publishing reports regarding him, has secured

a High Court stay order against the dailies publishing ‘false reports’ regarding him.
Earlier the Bangalore City Civil Judges Court -40 had declined his request to pass an

immediate and unilateral injunction to the respondents on the grounds that they were

defaming him by publishing false reports.

This forced Palemar to move the High Court where he complained that his reputation

would bite the dust if the newspapers continued to publish reports against him in the

wake of the failure of the lower court to issue an injunction order.

Consequent upon this, the High Court has passed a ruling and has served a notice to

Karavali Ale and Gowri Lankesh saying “Do not publish false reports against Palemar. If

you have anything to state, do it so before the court.”

Prior to this, Palemar had served a lawyer notice to ‘Karavali Ale’ seeking a

compensation of Rs 2 crore to which the Karavali Ale had responded in an equally

lengthy reply.

But even before it could reach him, Palemar had moved the Bangalore Civil Court and

later the High Court.

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