The Allahabad High Court will hear tomorrow, a petition challenging the October, 2022 order by an Agra court, which refused to register an FIR against Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-chief of India TV, for allegedly calling the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe as 'lower/small' castes
Delhi High Court imposes a cost of Rupees One Lakh on the petitioner for filing the instant public interest litigation based only upon the “so-called press releases” without providing details of any incident of harassment as alleged and directed that the cost be paid to the Army War Widows Fund.
After the Bombay High Court pulled up the media for being highly polarised in its coverage of the Rajput case, the News Broadcasting Standards Authority directed four channels to air their apologies.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was referring to a hashtag campaign #ArrestRhea run by the channel, following the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.