New Delhi:
Making some hanging observations within the Editors Guild of India case, the Supreme Court docket has stated that the crime of disturbing communal concord, talked about within the Manipur Police FIR, doesn’t seem like made out. The court docket additionally puzzled how merely giving a report may represent a criminal offense.
A case had been filed towards three members of the Editors Guild’s fact-finding workforce, who had gone to Manipur to evaluate the media’s reportage of the ethnic battle within the state, and the Guild’s president. The complainant had alleged that the report submitted by the workforce was “false, fabricated and sponsored”, and the fees within the first data report included selling enmity between completely different teams.