Govt doing nothing about checking instigating content on TV, says Supreme Court

STRESSING ON the need to check “instigating” content on television, the Supreme Court Thursday said the government appeared to be “doing nothing about it”.

“The fact of the matter is that there are programmes which have instigating effect and you being the government is doing nothing about it,” Chief Justice of India S A Bobde told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

The bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, was hearing a plea by Jamiat-Ulema-I-Hind, which alleged that the issue of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation last year – during the onset of the pandemic – was reported in such a manner that it would spread communal hatred.