Supreme Court to hear Chautala petition

On 1 March the Supreme Court decided to hear on March 6 a petition seeking stay on telecast of a TV show, ‘Crime Patrol Dastak ’, based on the teachers’ recruitment scam in which former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and 54 others were convicted. 

The petition in this regard was mentioned before a Bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir which said it will hear the matter concerning balancing the right of freedom of speech and expression and the rights of the accused. 

Mr. Chautala and other convicts have filed an appeal against the order of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court which had on 28 February 2013 set aside the order of its single Judge Bench restraining telecast of the TV show. 

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for them, contended that telecast of the show would prejudice their case in the High Court. 

He said the promo of the programme clearly showed the reconstruction of the event and characters of the case in which the accused have been convicted. 

However, their plea was opposed by senior advocate Harish Salve, who was appearing for Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd, subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Television in India.

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