Srinagar, July 12 -- A local court in Jammu has directed the suspended top cop, Basant Rath, not to publish any post or material defamatory or derogatory against six persons from Jammu who claim to be acquaintances of the J&K Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbagh Singh.

The order was passed by 2nd Additional Munsif Jammu, Jeewan Kumar Sharma, on a suit filed by Parveen Kumar Mittal, Virender Dubey, Saurabh Dang, Rahul Bansal, Davinder Verma and Amit Kohli.

The applicants, mostly businessmen, had sought a decree of permanent prohibitory injunction, restraining Rath from posting any defamatory, derogatory, libel or slanderous posts or material on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others against them.

They p...