“I clarify that the lead character (in Half Girlfriend) Madhav Jha is stated to be a direct descendant of the royal family of Dumraon, which is not true. The text of the court’s order was put up on its website on Wednesday. It was approved by the court that said the suit stood disposed of. The text of the apology was presented as a statement by Moorjani and approved by the additional district judge (central) at New Delhi’s Tis Hazari courts, Harish Kumar. Shyam Moorjani, the lawyer who represented Bhagat and Rupa, declined to comment on the case.

Gaurav Ghosh, the counsel for Singh, confirmed the terms of the out-of-court settlement reached between Bhagat and Rupa Publishers and Singh. Singh is the eldest son of Maharaja Bahadur Kamal Singh, a two-term Lok Sabha MP and the last ruler of Dumraon before its accession to the Indian union in 1952. He cited “express and implied references” to his family in Bhagat’s book, first published in 2014, that, he said, were “false and derogatory in nature”. (File photo)Ĭhandra Vijay Singh slapped the defamation suit in 2016 claiming the male members of the family were maliciously portrayed as alcoholics and gamblers in Half Girlfriend.

Author Chetan Bhagat settled the defamation suit for slur in 'Half Girlfriend'. Chetan Bhagat and the erstwhile princely state of Dumraon in Bihar, which slapped a Rs 1 crore defamation suit against the best-selling author, have reached an out-of-court settlement after he tendered an unconditional apology for “unintended confusion and misunderstanding” over the “fictional” references to the royal family in his book Half Girlfriend.

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