SC refuses to entertain plea of ARG Outlier Media
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Last Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:51 AM IST
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An FIR was lodged in Maharashtra against some scribes of Republic TV under the provision of the 1922 Act for allegedly defaming the Mumbai Police and trying to cause disaffection among members of the police force.
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A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing the plea which had challenged the validity of the Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a plea filed by ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which owns the Republic Media network, challenging the validity of a colonial era law of 1922 and asked it to approach the Bombay High Court. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing the plea which had challenged the validity of the Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 17: In a setback to Arnab Goswami, a Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde on Thursday dismissed as withdrawn a petition filed by the Republic TV s firm ARG Outlier Media Private Limited for quashing an FIR filed by the Mumbai Police for his blistering libellous attack against film actor Salman Khan with senior citizen and Big Boss of drugs jibes.
Appearing for his company, senior advocate Siddharth Bhatnagar said his client has challenged the Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922, a colonial era Act made to regulate nationalistic activities which is now being used to curb the fundamental rights.
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SC refuses to entertain plea of Republic Media network, asks it to approach Bombay HC
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing the plea which had challenged the validity of the Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a plea filed by ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which owns the Republic Media network, challenging the validity of a colonial era law of 1922 and asked it to approach the Bombay High Court.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing the plea which had challenged the validity of the Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922.
Republic TV’s founder and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami. (File photo)
After the Maharashtra government gave an assurance that it would not take any coercive action against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of the ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which runs the channel, till Wednesday, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday said that it will hear the channel’s plea seeking quashing of the Mumbai Police FIR in the TRP scam fraud case and also against the chargesheet filed by the police.
A division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice M S Karnik, while hearing the pleas by ARG Outlier and Goswami, was informed by senior counsel Aabad Ponda that there is an apprehensive that the Mumbai Police would arrest Goswami and other channel employees and hence, an interim relief restraining the police from doing so till the next hearing on Wednesday has been sought.