On Monday, the High Court of Delhi issued notices to several media houses & journalists over their coverage of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rapjut’s death case.
Republic TV, Times Now, their executive editors Arnab Goswami & Navika Kumar are among those who were served with the high court’s notice. The Court was hearing the petition filed by 34 Bollywood production houses seeking restrain on the content aired by the media houses.
The Court has also asked the defendants to ensure that no defamatory content is displayed on their channels or uploaded on their social media handles.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher said, “In the meanwhile, the counsel of the defendants (channels) have also ensured me that they would follow the program code & the rules framed under the Cable TV Regulation Act.”
A host of leading Bollywood filmmakers had in October filed a lawsuit against “media trials of Bollywood personalities”, for calling them names & painting the entire “Bollywood as criminals” & sought action against them in the fallout of the Rajput death case investigation.
The petition filed through DSK Legal had also sought directions to the various social media platforms to restrain them from publishing the remarks of these journalists which is ultimately leading to media trials of Bollywood personalities & interfering with the right to privacy of persons associated with Bollywood.
According to the plea, the suit was filed due to the channels using derogatory words for Bollywood such as “dirt”, “filth”, “scum”, “druggies” & expressions such as “it is Bollywood where the dirt needs to be cleaned”, “all the perfumes of Arabia cannot take away the stench & the stink of this filth & scum of the underbelly of Bollywood”, “this is the dirtiest industry in the country”, & “cocaine & LSD drenched Bollywood”.
The prominent petitioners include The Film & Television Producers Guild Of India (PGI), The Cine & TV Artistes’ Association (CINTAA), Indian Film & TV Producers Council (IFTPC), Screenwriters Association (SWA), Aamir Khan Productions, Ad-Labs Films, Ajay DevgnFflims, Andolan Films, Anil Kapoor Film & Communication Network, Arbaaz Khan Productions, Ashutosh Gowariker Productions, BSK Network & Entertainment, Cape of Good Films, Clean Slate Filmz, Dharma Productions, Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures, Excel Entertainment , Filmkraft Productions, Hope Production, Kabir Khan Films, Luv Films, Macguffin Pictures, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, One India Stories, R.S. Entertainment (Ramesh Sippy Entertainment),Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures, Red Chillies Entertainment, Reel Life Productions, Reliance Big Entertainment, Rohit Shetty Picturez, Roy Kapur Films, Salman Khan Films, Sikhya Entertainment, Sohail Khan Productions, Tiger Baby Digital, Vinod Chopra Films, Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures & Yashraj Films.
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