Guwahati, Sept. 19 -- A Delhi court on Thursday set aside the ex parte injunction that had restrained journalists Ravi Nair, Abir Dasgupta, Ayaskant Das, and Ayush Joshi from publishing allegedly defamatory material about Gautam Adani's Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL).

District Judge Ashish Aggarwal of the Rohini Court said the September 6 order was "unsustainable" as it was passed without giving the journalists an opportunity to be heard.

"The senior civil judge ought to have granted that opportunity before passing an order which had the impact of prima facie declaring the articles as defamatory and directing their removal," he observed.

The original injunction, issued by Special Civil Judge Anuj Kumar Singh, had restrained nine journ...