This article aims to analyse the liability of Internet intermediaries in India for hosting defamatory content. In the absence of any statutory law relating to online defamation, the courts in India have had to rely upon comparable developments in the United Kingdom to define the contours of liability of the intermediaries for facilitating the publication of defamatory content on the Internet. However, affixing liability on intermediaries in the absence of similar statutory immunities provided to them under the UK law may prove prejudicial to the intermediaries. Therefore, this article argues that India should enact a comprehensive law to statutorily limit the grounds on which liability may be imposed on Internet intermediaries for hosting online defamatory content. This article further argues that India should adopt and codify the ‘notice and notice plus’ approach to intermediary liability as it ensures that intermediaries are not held liable as publishers for hosting the defamatory content, but in the meantime are also encouraged to take active steps to ensure effective justice to the victims of online defamation.

本文旨在分析印度互联网中介机构托管诽谤内容的责任。在没有任何与在线诽谤相关的成文法的情况下，印度法院不得不依靠英国的类似发展来界定中介机构在促进互联网上诽谤内容发布方面的责任范围。然而，在缺乏英国法律赋予他们的类似法定豁免权的情况下，对中间人施加责任可能对中间人不利。因此，本文认为，印度应制定一项全面的法律，以法定限制对托管在线诽谤内容的互联网中介机构施加责任的理由。