As per the case facts a criminal defamation complaint was filed against individuals and their challenge to the summoning order was unsuccessful in the High Court leading to an appeal ... to the Supreme Court The question arose whether certain statements specifically tweets about exposing alleged scams constituted defamation under Section of the IPC Finally the Supreme Court ruled that the statements in question were not defamatory within the meaning of Section IPC stating that phrases like I will expose you are not inherently defamatory without further context