The Supreme Court, hearing the petition alleging hate speech against Muslims during a show on Sudarshan TV, observed that it is conscious of the implications a pre-telecast injunction can have as a legal precedent for freedom of speech and expression.
The court does not wish the come in the way of journalism and free speech, a bench of Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice KM Joseph said, according to a Bar & Bench report. ‘’We know how an injunction order will be looked like. I am afraid that there will be injunctions galore and we don’t want that to be the law of land. We want to give your client a good faith option.”
The Supreme Court, after initially declining a pre-telecast ban, stayed telecast of future episodes on Tuesday after the petition alleged that four parts of the show went on air amounted to hate speech. The top court earlier said the prima facie…