[MJ Akbar Vs Priya Ramani Defamation Case] Final Arguments By Sr.Ad Rebecca John [LIVE-UPDATES]

John: Akbar himself has admitted of having a consensual relationship with one of these women

John: give names of all those women who made allegations against Akbar

'It's a shared experience of multiple women, and it didn't stop there. Many women came out afterwords with their experiences', John argues 

John: Ramani's article and tweets are based on her own experience with Akbar. So, her own experience with Akbar is the fulcrum on which good faith rests, validated by the combined experiences of multiple making similar allegations against Akbar

John: reads out the legal definition of 'good faith', to argue that Ramani's article and tweets were written in good faith

John: The time-period quoted by Ramani doesn't challenge her credibility. That's her story, that's the time period that she is referring to in her defence

John: They did not even examine Ramani's mobile phone because the WhatsApp messages were there

John: Prosecution shies away from referring to the Hotel incident. There are so many defences they can take to challenge the Hotel incident, but they don't do that. Rather, they challenge the veracity of Ramani's tweets

John: Ramani took the stand to make a statement on oath which is reliable, which is true, and which has been corroborated  

John: there's a tacit agreement in complainant's line of examination that the WhatsApp texts were sent by Nilofar 

John: Ramani's evidence is further corroborated by the WhatsApp texts sent to her by Nilofar

'To call these texts an afterthought is preposterous. There's a double corroboration of Ramani's statements', John argues