Media trial a vague, wrong procedure

The Supreme Court has taken the notion of media trial seriously. In its recent remarks the apex court urged the Union Government to prepare guidelines on police briefing to media as well as how media represents the briefing in an unbiased way. The court also advocated on the adoption of effective self regulatory mechanism for the news channels. Citing the media trial of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case by a few news channels, the court has labeled news coverage as contemptuous.

Media trial has emerged as a trend. The media acts as jury, prosecutor, judge and executioner and the TV studio in the trial becomes a court room.