Legal Principle: Defamation means publication of a statement injuring the reputation of a person without lawful justification. Such statement must reflect on a person's reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of the society generally or tends to make them shun or avoid him.Factual Situation: Madam Tussauds Ltd. decided to keep a waxwork exhibition and placed an effigy of Babloo Prasad with a gun, in a room adjoining the 'Chamber of Horrors'. Mr Babloo Prasad had been tried for murder in India and released on a verdict of 'not proven guilty' and a representation of the scene of the alleged murder was displayed in the Chamber of Horrors. Does this amount to defamation? (AILET 2014)Decision:

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