Anchor played video of Congress leader from Wayanad in Udaipur massacre
Anchor played video of Congress leader from Wayanad in Udaipur massacre
TV news anchor Rohit Ranjanfacing multiple FIRs in some states for playing Fake clip of Congress leader Rahul GandhiOn Thursday, his plea seeking protection from penal action for the alleged offence, again sought urgent hearing from the Supreme Court on Thursday.
A vacation bench headed by Justice Indira Banerjee had ordered on Wednesday List of Petitions for Hearing On Thursday, said it was “waiting for the assignment from the CJI”.
“It has not been handed over to us. It awaits assignment by the Chief Justice. It cannot be handed over to us,” said the bench which also included Justice JK Maheshwari.
Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Mr. Ranjan, said the petition was directed to be listed for hearing today, but it is not on the agenda and urged that it be referred to a bench on Friday.
“Let us see. The papers of the case are with the CJI. List the matter tomorrow, when the CJI’s approval will be received,” the bench said.
The top court on Wednesday agreed to hear on Thursday the plea of news anchors who are facing multiple FIRs for playing fake clips of Gandhi in some states.
Mr. Ranjan later apologized and the news program was withdrawn.
“This man was arrested yesterday by UP Police in Noida released on bail Since the offense was bailable,” Mr. Luthra had said that the anchor made a mistake in a show and apologized for it and the news was withdrawn.
The senior lawyer said, “Now, the Chhattisgarh Police wants to arrest him. Please list it immediately, otherwise he will be in custody again and again.”
Tension between two state police teams
on Tuesday, a chhattisgarh police team The anchor reached Ghaziabad city in Uttar Pradesh to be arrested from his house, but instead he was arrested by the Noida police, who released him on bail later on Tuesday night.
“Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan was booked for questioning by a team of Noida Sector-20 police station from his home on Tuesday morning under IPC 505 (public mischief) on a doctoral complaint from his own channel. The video was played during his show on July 1,” said a Noida police officer. PTIIn search of oblivion.
Senior Superintendent of Police in Raipur Prashant Agarwal told PTI That Mr. Ranjan and others were booked for promoting enmity between different groups and hurting the religious sentiments of people based on a complaint by Congress MLA Devendra Yadav in Zee News on Sunday.
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In his complaint, Mr Yadav said that a video, in which Mr Gandhi described the attackers at his Wayanad office as children and said he had no ill-will against them, was used by a TV channel on July 1 ” Drunk”. Udaipur tailor was forgiving the killers of Kanhaiya Lal.
The FIR in Raipur was registered under IPC sections, 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, hurting religious sentiments of any class), 467 (forgery), 469 (forgery intended to damage reputation). 504 (intentional insult).
On July 2, a day after the video aired, Mr. Ranjan apologized for incorrectly linking Mr. Gandhi’s statement to the Udaipur massacre.
He had tweeted in Hindi, “It was a human error for which our team apologizes. We apologize for it.”