A file photo of Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami. | Sujit Jaiswal/AFP
The Mumbai Police on Wednesday informed the Bombay High Court that they have found more evidence against Republic TV and its Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in the Television Rating Points manipulation scam,
Live Law reported.
Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, representing the Mumbai Police, told the bench comprising Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik that they wanted to take coercive action against the accused. The police had earlier agreed to an undertaking that no such action will be taken.
The division bench was hearing a petition filed by AGR Outlier Media Private Limited – the company that runs Republic TV. The plea sought to quash the first information report in the TRP scam case.
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We had begun to believe that the Bharatiya Janata Party is striding ahead with its steady demolition of secularism and free speech because the courts are not resisting its agenda. But a closer look at what happened in the courts this year offers cause for cheer.
This has been a significant year for media practitioners and citizens in the courts. While the cases involving the Republic TV anchor, Arnab Goswami, grabbed the headlines, there were pushbacks in the Supreme Court against hate speech, with television anchors peddling such speech being refused relief. The courts also made observations decrying the addition of sections pertaining to sedition in first information reports. In Goswami’s case, none other than the frequently maligned Chief Justice of India observed that what his channel puts out is “not the kind
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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.
Setback to Arnab Goswami: SC trashes petition KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/18/2020 11:16:50 PM
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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