Delhi HC: Learn law before journalism

People must take a course in criminal trial and then get into journalism, was how an annoyed Delhi High Court remarked while expressing displeasure over the alleged parallel investigation being run by anchor Arnab Goswami on his TV channel in connection with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case.

The high court, which observed responsible journalism is the need of the time, said it was not saying that anyone would gag the media but at the same time, sanctity of investigation must be maintained.

“Can the media sit in appeal against the chargesheet filed by an investigating agency? Justice Mukta Gupta asked.