New Delhi: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty received a reprieve with the Supreme Court on Friday refusing to vacate a Bombay High Court's interim order restraining film magazine Startdust from publishing some articles on her personal life.
A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam, however, asked the high court to explore the possibility of disposing off the Rs 20 crore defamation suit filed by Shetty against the magazine in 2001.
The magazine was seeking to publish articles on Shilpa Shetty's alleged relationship with some of the male actors and also a married man, against which she obtained an interim injunction from a single judge of the Bombay High Court on January 12, 2001.
The single-judge bench had passed the injunction after taking a prima facie view that the articles dealt with the actress' personal life and were defamatory in nature.
Magna Publishers Ltd, publishers of the magazine, moved a division bench of the high court against the single judge's order which dismissed it, following which the publishers appealed in the apex court.
The apex court while declining to express any opinion on the merits of the case, said it found no reason to interfere with the interim order passed by the single judge and upheld by the division bench.
But it asked the high court to explore the possibility of disposing off the suit at an early date.
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