MEDIA TRIAL

Each and every organ in the democratic soceity should perform its duties within its limits and if either of the organ crosses its limits then hype as you mentioned starts as has been seen in various matters concerning to media and judiciary.

There are both faces of this overactivism. Cehck and balance is one of this aspect but on the other hand some bad effects have also felt by this crossing of limits.

Yes, "Lot of hype on few cases alone . . ." What will be the fate of injustice, which are left unreported? That too needs urgent attention. Injustice is main cause of corruption.

As pointed out by Raj, limit and reasonableness of actions should be the guiding star.

Media is working as a pressure group. Illogical questions are being asked by the anchors and comments are being made without having any knowledge of the law and legal system. As the judges are also the part of the society and common human beings ,they are also prejudiced about the cases. The media people should not be entertained till they prove their credential that they are academically qualified and have mental capability to understand and discuss the law.

The legal fraternity should unite and put a check on the media reportings.There should be a line as up to what extent a media can report an issue involving questions of law.

Because of the long list of News channels, there is a cut throat competition among them. As a result the news channels succumb to the sensationalism. These days instead of covering the news, the media are creating the News.   The Media hype is very dangerous because, it appears that Judges and Magistrates in trial court seem to pass the verdict according to public perception with a view 'let the higher court decide during the appeals. Most of them can not be blamed because, due to several alleged cases of judicial corruption, they might also be thinking that, why to let the people or media to cast aspersions over my verdict, let the appeal court decide.

The media representatives donot not consider what the alleged accused might have to go through due to such forced verdicts.

 TV told us that one Rajesh Ranjan was incharge of investigation in the CBI in Ruchika suicide case. An IPS officer of Bihar Cadre.

I have come across this news item and am posting it for information without confirmation whether he is the same person. Remember that the Investigation Officer did not deliberately record the statement of Ruchika's brother.

 If courts don't work and DONS decide cases, what is wrong with media trial?