Rahul video: SC relief to Zee editor

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to Zee News editor Rajnish Ahuja in the multiple FIRs registered over airing a doctored video of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

Published: 06th August 2022 04:16 AM  |   Last Updated: 06th August 2022 07:44 AM   |  A+A A-

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to Zee News editor Rajnish Ahuja in the multiple FIRs registered over airing a doctored video of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

The SC issued notices to governments of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and also the Union Government and ordered that no coercive steps be taken against the petitioner (Ahuja) with respect to the existing FIRs and future FIRs which are registered on the same subject matter.

The Court allowed the probe to proceed in the first FIR registered in Jaipur but stayed the investigation in the subsequent FIR registered in Raipur. His petition has been tagged with the earlier petition filed by anchor Rohit Ranjan, who was granted interim protection from arrest by a vacation bench on July 8.

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