India, June 26 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed a Mumbai-based YouTuber not to publish allegations, imputations or insinuations describing Habib Hospital in Dongri as a "kattalkhana" (slaughterhouse) or suggesting it was complicit in murder, while permitting him to continue reporting on underlying medical negligence in the hospital.

Justice Arif Doctor was hearing a Rs.1,000-crore defamation suit filed by Habib Esmail Hospital & Medical Trust against YouTuber Salim Shaikh, who had uploaded several videos and social media posts concerning a woman in whose abdomen a surgical gauze piece was allegedly found after a caesarean surgery.

According to the Trust, the woman underwent surgery at a private hospital in Dongri in May and ...