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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | "Next, Sedition Case For This TV Channel?": Top Judge's Scathing Remark -A Vaidyanathan

"Next, Sedition Case For This TV Channel?": Top Judge's Scathing Remark -A Vaidyanathan

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published Published on May 31, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 1, 2021

-NDTV

The exchange was hours before the same two judges put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against two news channels and said: "It's time we define limits of sedition"

New Delhi: During a hearing on the centre's oft-criticised vaccination policy, Supreme Court Justices DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao on Monday referred to visuals aired by NDTV of a dead body - a suspected COVID-19 patient - being dumped into a river in Uttar Pradesh.

Justice Chandrachud and Justice Rao referred to that horrific sight as part of a sarcastic exchange to underline their displeasure at the many sedition cases filed recently, including one by the Andhra Pradesh government against two news channels for airing the comments of a rebel MP.

"Yesterday (Sunday) we saw pictures of a dead body being thrown in a river," Justice Rao observed.

"Yes. There was a picture of body being thrown into river. I do not know whether complaint of sedition (has been) filed against the news channel for showing it," Justice Chandrachud replied.

The exchange came hours before a bench including the same two judges put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against the two TV channels, and said: "It's time we define limits of sedition."

"The Andhra Pradesh government's act of filing sedition cases against the channels is muffling channels. It is time the court defines sedition," Justice Chandrachud said in that hearing.

The court also said: "We are of the view that provisions of 124A and 153 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) require interpretation, particularly on the issue of rights of press and free speech."

Section 124 A deals with sedition and 153 with provocation for riots.

In March the court, while dismissing a petition against Jammu and Kashmir MP Farooq Abdullah, said expressing views that are different from government opinion cannot be termed "sedition".

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NDTV, 31 May, 2021, https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/next-sedition-case-for-this-tv-channel-top-judges-scathing-remark-2453058


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