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  • I&B Ministry asks TV channels to follow Supreme Court orders in condemning lynching, mob violence

    I&B Ministry asks TV channels to follow Supreme Court orders in condemning lynching, mob violence

    MUMBAI: The country has seen an alarming increase in the incidences of lynching in the last few years. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has once again sent out an advisory to TV channels to comply with the Supreme Court’s directions to electronic media to condemn lynching and mob violence.

    The relevant extract for TV channels from the Tehseen S Poonawalla vs Union of India and others reads: “The central and state governments should broadcast on radio and television and other media platforms including the official websites of Home Department and Police of the States that lynching and mob violence of any kind shall invite serious consequences under the law.”

    The MIB advisory also requests channels to run the following messages in the form of a scroll: Mob violence and lynching is a serious crime and invites serious consequences under the law. Mob violence and lynching is a serious criminal offence and invites stringent punishment under the law.

    The ministry mentioned that Doordarshan had already begun implementing the apex court’s order.

    The MIB had previously directed TV channels to carry the warning in September 2018 to adhere to Supreme Court’s verdict on lynching, cow vigilantism and mobocracy. TV channels were asked to refer to the Supreme Court judgement dated 17 July 2018 and 24 September 2018. It also urged TV channels to “ensure widest possible outreach of the directions of the Supreme Court”.

    The Supreme Court on 17 July 2018 had decried cases related to lynching and said mobocracy won’t be tolerated in civil society. It said, “No citizen can take the law into his hands nor become a law unto himself.”

    In this regard, the Supreme Court bench headed by the then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra had also ordered the centre and states to take strict action against lynching and mob vigilantism. It had warned people that indulging in it would attract the ‘wrath of law’.

    In the last few years, there have been rising instances of lynching over fake news. One of such was the Dadri lynching in 2015 when a mob of around 50 people lynched a 52-year-old Muslim villager on the pretext of storing beef at his home. Similarly, two young travellers in Guwahati, Assam were also lynched on the allegation that they were child kidnappers.

  • NewsX special shows on 9th & 10th march

    NewsX special shows on 9th & 10th march

    MUMBAI: This weekend on NewsX, watch out for an exclusive interview of Justice Dipak Misra, Ex- Chief Justice of India, on the show, Legally Speaking, during the interview, he will speak on the topic Law & Dharma, along with him there will be Mr P.S. Narasimha, Additional Solicitor General of India and Mr Aruneshwar Gupta, Author of the book, ‘Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta: The Song Celestial – A Lawyer's Perspective’.                

    In another show, NewsX-No Holds Barred, there will be another episode of the one on one interaction with Mr Ruchir Sharma, Global Investor and Best-Seller Author who is one of the brightest brain in the world of International finance, he will share his views on the Indian political scenario.

    This weekend on NewsX-The Sunday Guardian-The Roundtable, there will be a discussion between Ms. Priya Sahgal on her book ‘The Contenders’, with the panelists including Mr. Praful Patel, Member of Parliament; Mr. Milind Deora, Member of Parliament; Mr. Jayant Chaudhury, Member of Parliament and Ms. Shaina NC, BJP Spokesperson.  

    In the show Cover Story, there will be a special episode on an interesting discussion on the topic ‘The RSS Way’ between Mr Sudhanshu Mittal, BJP Spokesperson; Ms Aditi Phadnis, Columnist and Mr Pankaj Vohra, Managing Editor, The Sunday Guardian.

  • Govt withdraws plan for social media hub

    Govt withdraws plan for social media hub

    MUMBAI: The government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its notification proposing to create a social media hub. Some had alleged that this could become a tool to monitor the online activities of the citizens.

    A bench, comprising justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud and headed by chief justice of India Dipak Misra, considered the submission of attorney general KK Venugopal that the notification was being withdrawn, and disposed off petitions challenging it.

    Venugopal told the bench, that the social media policy would be reviewed completely by the government. The Bench was hearing a petition filed by Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra, who alleged that the government’s social media hub policy was to be used as a tool to monitor social media activities of citizens and sought the quashing of the same.

    The apex court, which agreed to hear the plea, asked the government whether its move to create such a hub was to tap people’s WhatsApp messages, and observed that it would be like creating a ‘surveillance state’.

  • SC tells DD to air show warning about Blue Whale

    SC tells DD to air show warning about Blue Whale

    NEW DELHI: Amidst reports of suicides reportedly caused by the Blue Whale online game, public broadcaster Doordarshan has been asked by the Supreme Court to conceive and air a cautionary and educational programme on its dangers.

    DD was given a week’s time to prepare the programme that should be of at least ten minutes and should be telecast at prime time.

    A bench headed by chief justice Dipak Misra with justices DY Chandrachud and AM Khanwilkar said, “Anything that threatens life should be condemned.” The case by a 73-year old Chennai advocate N S Ponnaiah has been posted for further hearing on 15 November 2017.

    “Suffice to say that the Blue Whale game is dangerous to life. What endangers life has to be condemned and not allowed,” Misra observed.

    The court asked DD to script the programme in consultation with the Ministries of Home Affairs, Women and Child Welfare Department, Human Resource and Development and Information Broadcasting, and Information Technology.

    The court also directed the government to see to it that private channels also telecast the programme.

    “The idea behind the programme is to make parents and children aware of the dangers of online games like Blue Whale. The message of the programme should be that children should not be trapped by the game. There are children who are lonely and frustrated. Definitely visuals will have more impact,” Chief Justice Misra said.

    According to additional solicitor general PS Narasimha, a committee constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology found that around 28 cases have been traced to have links with Blue Whale game. A probe was on and a complete picture of the extent and means of the game would be ascertained in the next three weeks.

    The Centre was determined to “stop the game”, which has the potentiality to destroy life. The government had communicated to many agencies and online platforms to check and inform on the availability and use of the game.

    The commission has told school authorities to thoroughly verify the background of teachers and non-teaching staff before hiring them.

    The Blue Whale challenge is a game created by Russian national Philipp Budeikin, 22, in which a set of instructions tell the players to harm themselves and eventually commit suicide. Budeikin is now in jail.

  • IPL: BCCI tells SC rights bidding process under way, hearing on 22 Aug

    IPL: BCCI tells SC rights bidding process under way, hearing on 22 Aug

    MUMBAI: The Supreme Court sent a legal notice to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)  enquiring why the IPL media rights auction has not taken place online. And, BCCI told the court that e-auction of rights was not possible and that the court should not intervene as the bidding process was already under way.

    The auction process for IPL media rights is in progress up to 28 August, and the rights would operate for a period of five years. BJP MP Subramanian Swamy had, on 11 July, filed a petition before the apex court asking why broadcast rights for cricket matches would not be sold through e-auction. He had mentioned that the BCCI should have gone for e-auction since a huge amount of Rs 300 billion was at stake.

    The court had directed the board to respond in two weeks.

    The bench, comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dipak Misra, has asked the Committee of Administrators (CoA), appointed by it, to assist the apex court in deciding the issue. The next hearing is now scheduled for 22 August.

    IPL’s TV broadcast rights were held by Sony Pictures Networks till the 10th edition which concluded in June. The Internet and mobile rights were awarded to Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt. Ltd (Hotstar), a unit of Star India, for a period of three years to 2017.

    Singapore-based World Sport Group pocketed the IPL broadcasting rights for 10 years in 2008 by investing US$ 918 million. A year later, the contract was replaced when Sony Group (through Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd) paid US$ 1.63 billion for the nine-year broadcasting rights. The auction process was delayed last year on the Supreme Court’s directive to first comply with the Lodha panel reforms.

    Facebook, Reliance Jio, Twitter, Sony Pictures Network India and Star India were some of the major companies who picked up the tender document. While the television broadcast rights for the Indian subcontinent is for 10 seasons (up to 2027), the digital rights are valid for five seasons and the international media rights also are for five seasons.

     

    Also Read: IPL: Media rights race hots up after IMG renews events deal

    Swamy seeks transparency in IPL media rights through SC

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  • Emergency-based ‘Indu Sarkar’ released, three cases dismissed

    NEW DELHI: ‘Indu Sarkar’, a film which dramatises the period of the National Emergency between 1975 and 1977, was released today after the dismissal of three different cases against the film.

    The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the plea of a woman, who claims to be the biological daughter of late Sanjay Gandhi, seeking a stay on the release of the film.

    A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said the film is an “artistic expression” within the parameters of law, and there was no justification to stall its release.

    The film had earlier faced problems when the Central Board for Film Certification had demanded 14 cuts in the political drama. Abiding by the revising committee of the CBFC’s suggestions, director Madhur Bhandarkar made revisions to the film, about which Bhandarkar informed the apex court.

    Counsel for the petitioner had submitted that the movie was “full of concocted facts and is totally derogatory.”

    The Bombay High Court had rejected a similar plea by the woman on 24 July on the grounds that the petitioner was unable to make her case seeking stay on the release of the movie. The court had further observed that none of the acknowledged descendant of Sanjay Gandhi had raised an objection to the movie.

    The Delhi High Court also dismissed yesterday the plea by a lawyer to revoke the CBFC’s clearance. Merely stating that one is a strong believer of Gandhis does not give a right to seek a stay on the release of the film, it said. The petition claimed the movie depicted late Indira Gandhi and her late son Sanjay in a bad light and was a “propaganda film.”

  • Supreme Court stays Delhi government’s defamation circular against media

    Supreme Court stays Delhi government’s defamation circular against media

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stayed operation of a circular dated 6 May by the Delhi government, which would have initiated defamation proceedings against media for publishing or broadcasting news that damage the reputation of the chief minister, the council of ministers and the government.

     

    The bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant issued a notice Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. “As an interim measure we direct stay of the circular dated May 6, 2015 till further order of this court,” the notice said.

     

    Asking Kejriwal to explain why the directorate of information has issued “such circular,” the court sought a reply within six weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on 8 July.

     

    The court’s order came on an application filed by senior advocate Amit Sibal seeking vacation of the stay granted by the apex court on the proceedings before a trial court in a defamation case.

     

    Sibal, who had filed a criminal defamation complaint against Kejriwal and others in the Patiala House court, said that while the chief minister on one hand seeks setting aside of penal laws on defamation, on the other hand he has issued such a circular.

     

    “It is noteworthy that the petitioner (Kejriwal) in his affidavit declares that he is working as chief minister of Delhi. However, the aforesaid circular directly contradicts and mitigates against the stand taken by him in the present petition,” the plea said, adding that the stay on the trial court proceedings against Kejriwal be vacated.

     

    The circular, issued by state information and publicity department, said that if any officer associated with the Delhi government feels that a published or aired item has caused damage to his or the government’s reputation, he should file a complaint with the principal secretary.