Srinagar, Feb. 14 -- A court here on Thursday granted interim relief to Sandeep Mawa in a civil defamation suit seeking Rs.1,100 crore in damages from Ghulam Rassol Hami and others, and temporarily restrained them from circulating allegedly defamatory content against him.

The Court of Additional District Judge Srinagar, presided over by Farooq Ahmad Bhat, issued notices to the respondents while hearing the plea and held that immediate intervention was necessary to prevent further harm to the plaintiff's reputation until the dispute is fully heard.

Mawa has accused multiple defendants, primarily including Hami, chairman of Karwai Islami, of conspiring to circulate defamatory and derogatory statements, videos and images targeting his pers...