India, April 1 -- The Delhi high court said that a public figure bears a legal and moral responsibility to verify the veracity of facts before leveraging their platforms to amplify grave accusations while criticising actor Richa Chadha for publicly "shaming" and amplifying unverified claims against a man accused of sexual misconduct by a woman on a flight.

"A public figure, such as defendant no. 7 (Richa Chadha), bears a legal and moral responsibility to verify the veracity of facts before leveraging her platform to amplify grave accusations. The Court is prima facie of the view that endorsement of unverified allegations has inflicted immediate, exponential, and incalculable harm on the plaintiff's reputation. The endorsement and amplifi...