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CJI Pulls Up Centre for Filing Low-Grade Affidavit in Pleas Seeking Action for Communal Branding of Covid-19

Lawstreet Journal 9 Oct 2020 6:44pm

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In an extraordinary move, SA Bobde, Chief Justice of India, pulled up the Narendra Modi government of the Centre on Thursday for a shoddy affidavit on a petition seeking action against the Indian media to communalize the COVID-19 pandemic. CJI Bobde warned Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, the government's legal officer, of the flippancy shown to India's top court.

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna & V. Ramasubramaniun noted that the Ministry concerned had filed an affidavit without even taking into account the details related to the incidents of bad reporting.

Although strongly objecting to the affidavit, the Chief Justice clarified that the Secretary of the Department must file an affidavit on record and he must point out what he thinks about these events. “We also want all acts under which you have exercised similar powers in the past", he said.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has approached the Supreme Court alleging that the Indian media spread Islamophobia during its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in connexion with the March meeting at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters.

The petition lodged by Advocate Ejaz Maqbool & Adeel Ahmed stressed that the Government, in particular the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, had failed in its obligation under Article 14 of the Constitution to grant equal protection of the law to all persons in India by enabling the media to portray facts in a skewed manner, using phrases which were detrimental to the Muslim community. It is further argued that the media has violated all norms of Journalistic… Continue Reading...


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