Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Editor In Case Related To Playing Of Doctored Clip Of Rahul Gandhi
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition filed by a TV news channel editor challenging summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for playing a fake clip of him during the telecast of a program on July 1. Was. Senior advocate Siddharth Dave, before a bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli, urged that the matter be listed immediately as the editor of the channel has not been protected. He said that the news anchor (Rohit Ranjan) of the channel has been given protection from punitive action in this case.
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At the same time, after hearing the arguments, the bench agreed to hear the editor’s petition on Friday. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari had on July 8 granted relief to Ranjan and restrained various state officials from taking coercive action against him in connection with several FIRs for playing fake clips of Gandhi. . Giving interim protection to the anchor, the bench had also issued notices to the Center and the states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh seeking their response to the FIR regarding the quashing of Ranjan’s plea or broadcast.
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