It is submitted in the writ petition that of the 404 television channels licensed to operate in India, a number of News and Current Affairs channels have engaged in conduct that is detrimental to the nation’s fight against terror. With respect to the recent Mumbai attacks, they have put assaulting terrorists on air to freely express their views and to state what motivated them to do so, have declared exclusivity in unraveling more sinister bids upon the country by relaying the confessions of ‘arrested terrorist’, have themselves connected several ongoing investigations, formed their own ‘television conclusions’ and have consulted banned terrorist outfits to support ‘television conclusions’, have aired inflammatory speeches of leaders of banned terrorist outfits and have freely offered airtime to suspected terrorists to declare their innocence and have performed many more acts that portray and magnify terrorists’ actions even while according minimal role to the institution of our Government.
The present Writ Petition is filed under Article 32 of the Constitution for the protection of a fundamental and paramount right of citizens to public peace, to compel the Government, in the light of a failure of its duty to restrain the media, to restrain the television media from relaying or disseminating messages and communication from suspected terrorists.
The writ petition is filed through K.V.Dhananjay, Advocate.
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