July 12, 2015

The five judge of Supreme Court has laid down how media trial can be restrained by all lower courts in India

The crucial part of the judgement is as  under :

“We are not framing guidelines but we have laid down constitutional principle and appropriate writ courts will decide when the postponement order has to be passed on case to case basis".

The full judgement can be searched on Google for those who want to study this issue more deeply.

The above key is the direction to legal steps which can be taken to restrain media.

Haresh Raichura
12/7/2015