The Court also slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for its inaction on the matter till the present writ petition was filed, Live Law reported.
The Court clarified that during elections the print media shall refrain from publishing any unverified information against any candidate or political party either directly or impliedly as per.
A single bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya restrained the BJP from publishing any kind of advertisements that breached the model code of conduct till June 4 or until further notice. "This court is surprised that no resolution worth the name has been arrived at regarding the said complaints to date, more so, since most of the phases of the electoral process are already over and only two phases are left and the entire election process shall be concluded by June 4," Justice Bhattacharya said in his order on a petition of the Trinamool Congress.