In 2018, Davidar moved the Delhi HC with a defamation suit. In 2024, Bose moved the HC against Davidar, alleging copyright infringement.

In a long drawn-out legal case spanning 15 years, the Delhi High Court Thursday cleared novelist and publisher David Davidar, formerly CEO and co-founder of Penguin India, of plagiarism charges. It also cleared Tuticorin-based author Sivasundari Bose, who had accused Davidar of plagiarising her manuscript, of defamation charges.

Davidar vs Bose

In 2011, Bose had alleged that Davidar’s 2002 novel, ‘The House of Blue Mangoes’, was plagiarised from her manuscript.…