HC asks Karnataka govt to formulate guidelines, prevent police from leaking info to media

The Karnataka High Court (HC) on Tuesday directed the state government to respond with more comprehensive guidelines to ensure police personnel do not leak information to the media before the conclusion of investigations, HT has learnt.

The state government has been given four weeks to prepare the guidelines, said a person aware of the developments.

“The petitioner advocate also argued on the point that there has been no cases or details of information given about the action taken by the police against leak of such information,” the person cited above said.

A division bench of Chief Justice of Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj heard the matter which also involves a plea by the petitioner to prevent the publishing and broadcasting of indecent and obscene material on TV news channels platforms.