Delhi High Court: Protect satire, right to comment on TV content part of free speech

STATING THAT the “creative genre” of satire must be “encouraged and protected”, the Delhi High Court said on Friday that the “right to comment on content created on social media or TV channels also has to be recognised as a facet of the right to free speech and expression”.

Refusing to grant interim relief to TV Today Network in its plea against online news portal Newslaundry, the court said it will “be in the interest of the public that every broadcaster has the right of fair comment on current events and of criticism and review, including of the programmes created by others”.