SC refuses to impose pre-broadcast ban on telecast of Sudarshan TV programme

The Supreme Court Friday refused to impose pre-broadcast ban on Sudarshan TV from telecasting ‘Bindas Bol’ programme, whose latest promo claimed that the channel was all set to broadcast a ‘big expose on conspiracy to infiltrate Muslims in government service’.

A bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and K M Joseph said it has to first “circumspect in imposing a prior restraint on publication or the airing of views”.

“At this stage, we have desisted from imposing a pre-broadcast interlocutory injunction on the basis of an unverified transcript of a forty-nine seconds clip. The Court has to be circumspect in imposing a prior restraint on publication or the airing of views.