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The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that the judiciary, central agencies and institutions should act independently, reported
Live Law.
A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale were hearing a petition filed by Nationalist Congress Party leader Eknath Khadse, seeking to quash an Enforcement Directorate complaint registered against him in an alleged land grabbing case.
In an Enforcement Case Information Report filed against the NCP leader, his wife Mandakini Khadse and son-in-law Girish Choudhari in October 2020, the investigation agency alleged that Khadse had misused his position as the revenue minister in 2016 to buy a land at a lower price, causing a loss of Rs 62 crore to the public exchequer, PTI reported.
PMLA case: Eknath Khadse seeks quashing of Enforcement Case Information Report in Bombay HC
ANI / Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 07:40 IST
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader
Eknath Khadse has filed a plea in Bombay High Court seeking quashing of an
Enforcement Case Information Report (
ECIR) filed against him by Enforcement Directorate (ED) under sections of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The matter was adjourned to January 25 after a brief hearing.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil Singh, appearing for ED, told the court that the agency will not take coercive action till the next hearing.
A woman who had accused NCP leader and social justice minister Dhananjay Munde of rape has withdrawn her complaint, lodged on January 10.
The Collegium headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde in a meeting held on January 20, 2021 approved the proposal which was uploaded on the apex court website on Thursday.
âPrima facie contemptuousâ: Bombay HC raps Republic TV, Times Now over Sushant Singh Rajputâs death coverage
The court has ordered that till the electronic media frames its own guidelines, the Press Council of Indiaâs guidelines should also apply to electronic media apart from the print media Mumbai, January 19, 2021
The Bombay High Court on Monday pulled up news channels Republic TV and Times Now over their reporting against Mumbai Police in Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajputâs death case and said it was âprima facie contemptuousâ.
However the court refrained from taking any action against the two channels.Â
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MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday, in a significant judgment on a clutch of PILs against “sensationalism” by broadcast media in the coverage of death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, said the media should restrain itself and “avoid or regulate” its coverage and debates and discussions during ongoing criminal investigations of cases.
The media should convey what is “informative, but in public interest, instead of what according to the media the public is interested in,” it directed. It said media must “avoid character assassination” while reporting on suicides.
The HC said “trial by media interferes with administration of justice” and amounts to contempt of court.