News Update Madras High Court: No compulsion, the petitioner is free to switch off the tv when the Sanskrit news is telecasted. 16 Feb 2021 Case : S.Muthukumar v. The Government of India Secretary to Government Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A plea was filed before the Madras High Court to stop telecasting the Sanskrit…
News Update UP Police filed an FIR against “The Wire” for promoting fake news 1 Feb 2021 An FIR against The Wire's founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan has been reported by the UP Police for his tweet regarding a report on The Wire in which the family of…
News Update Notice to social media houses by Delhi High Court for disclosing the victim’s identity in Hathras Case 9 Jan 2021 The Delhi High Court issued a notice to many social media houses for the alleged disclosure of victim’s identity in Hathras gang rape case. The bench consisted of Justice D.N.…
News Update Accused has fundamental rights; Media’s freedom of speech not greater than rights of an individual: Jammu & Kashmir Court 4 Jan 2021 A Jammu & Kashmir court said that freedom of speech and expression accessible to the media is not on a higher pedestal than the rights of individual people, barring nine…
News Update Petition in Supreme Court seeks independent, regulatory media tribunal 28 Dec 2020 A petition seeking the creation of an independent, regulatory Media Tribunal for the expeditious hearing of complaints lodged by viewers against media corporations, has been filed in the Supreme Court.…
News Update Bombay HC moved by police officers’ requests to cancel anticipatory bail Republic TV’s COO 14 Dec 2020 Assistant police officers Sachin Waze and Riyaz Kazi visited CFO Shiva Sundaram’s home along with 2 other employees’ residence, but they were not available. This comes in the wake of…
News Update Petitions against CM Jaganmohan Reddy to be heard by the Supreme Court on 1st December 2020 1 Dec 2020 A number of petitions filed by G.S Mani and few other people against the Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy will be heard before the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice…
News Update Bombay High Court’s view on applying “Prashant Kanojia” case as precedent in Arnab Goswani’s case 10 Nov 2020 In the order of the High Court refusing interim bail to Arnab Goswani, it was made clear that the facts of the Prashant Kanojia’s case and Arnab Goswani’s case are…
News Update Centre sets up a four-member committee to study different aspects of TRP system 6 Nov 2020 Last month Mumbai Police, claimed and unearthed a TRP scam, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, therefore decided to set up a four-member committee to study the different aspects…
News Update FIR against Arnab Goswani for assaulting women police officer 5 Nov 2020 A fresh Fir has been filed against Arnab Goswani, the Editor-in-chief of Republic TV, for assaulting woman police during the arrest on 4th November 2020. The said FIR was registered…