New Delhi: The Bombay High Court Monday issued guidelines to regulate media coverage of the ongoing criminal cases.
Hearing a batch of PILs, the bench comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni said the freedom of speech and expression is “the most abused right in recent times”.
The court also referred to coverage of Times Now and Republic TV on Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, and said “these TV channels took upon themselves the role of the investigator, the prosecutor as well as the Judge and delivered the verdict as if, during the pandemic, except they all organs of the State were in slumber”.
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