SC slams Centre affidavit on Tablighi Jamaat reporting: ‘Silent on TV content’

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its displeasure over the Centre’s affidavit in a case related to the media’s reporting of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in Delhi testing positive for Covid-19, and asked it to evolve a mechanism to deal with complaints against the electronic media.

In its latest affidavit filed before the Supreme Court — it had filed an earlier one in October — the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry said news reports and articles in print and online publications on the issue have largely been “balanced and neutral” and not communal.

It mentioned The Indian Express, The Times of India and the Hindustan Times to say that they “have carried largely factual reports in this context” and that