Defamation case against wife and in laws

Seeker (Querist) 30 August 2014 This query is : Resolved
My friend is going through a divorce case and is under mediation with his wife. inspite of the case being in the court the wife and her family keeps making calls to husbands family friends to narrate false sob stories that wife was mistreated and was thrown out of the house etc. wife's family is doing all this to spoil the reputation of her inlaws so the pressure is built on them and they withdraw the divorce case.
My question is, that can the husband file a defamation case against his wife and inlaws? He has phone recordings to prove where his family friends are narrating that wife's mother called them up and said all the sob stories.

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Seeker (Querist) 30 August 2014
Does defamation case only consider slander if it's in public domain or is published? Coz here the wife's family is backbiting amongst the social circle of the husband and her inlaws....and thus spoiling the reputation, so does this form a ground of defamation or not....since noting is in published domain.

Advocate M.Bhadra (Expert) 30 August 2014
Defamation case does not lie against the wife and in laws,it is time loss and money loss.

Dr J C Vashista (Expert) 31 August 2014
No case can be made out in the aforementioned circumstances.

Sudhir Kumar, Advocate (Expert) 31 August 2014
who out of social circle are you going to bring as a witness?

malipeddi jaggarao (Expert) 31 August 2014
You are a friend only. Be like that. Do not interfere in the personal life of an individual in the guise of friendship.
Your friend is already fighting a divorce case. Do not drag him into another one.

V R SHROFF (Expert) 31 August 2014
FORGET DEFAMATION//

ajay sethi (Expert) 31 August 2014
forget defamation and continue with divorce case .

Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 31 August 2014
Well, defamation can lie against wife and in laws as well.
It is your choice whether to pursue it or not.

Rajendra K Goyal (Expert) 31 August 2014
Give your attention to running case, no new case for the given grounds is advisable.

R.K Nanda (Expert) 31 August 2014
defamation case is not made out.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Expert) 03 September 2014
The contents of your post do not attract an offence under the provisions of law for an offence of defamation.

Sudhir Kumar, Advocate (Expert) 08 October 2014
for defamation case you have to prove that the allegations are false as well.

do not instigate her to raise the suffering of your friend.

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