9.3 Complaints to Court of Law

The judicial route (the legal claims): Defamation (the Criminal Code 2074's machinery): the offence provisions — Sections 305/306 family: the defamatory imputation's offence with the compensation order running alongside the conviction (the victim's civil recovery in the criminal case — Nepal's combined design); Section 307's limitation: three months from publication (the strict window — the sleeping victim's bar); Section 308's defences: truth published for the public good; good- faith comment on a public servant's duty or a public question; the fair report of judicial/ legislative proceedings; the qualified-privilege and legal-duty faces; The civil tort route: the damages suit (the LAW 311 companion); the injunction (rare — the prior-restraint bar of Unit 2.2 hovering over the pre-publication injunction); The privacy actions: the Individual Privacy Act 2074's remedies; the constitutional compensation (Article 28's violation); The contempt route: the sub judice and scandalising publications (Unit 7) — the court's own motion or the party's complaint; The public-law route: the citizen-vs-state writ (Article 46/133) where the grievance is the government's media interference — the journalist's own court door.