Sudarshan TV row: SC says doesn’t want to curtail freedom of speech

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday pondered over the nature and extent of its order regulating Sudarshan TV’s ‘Bindas Bol’ programme on alleged infiltration of Muslims in bureaucracy saying it did not want to “curtail” freedom of speech as the programme has “public interest” involved on issues of “foreign funding” and “reservation”.

The apex court, which has already imposed the pre-telecast ban on episodes of ‘UPSC Jehad’ as part of ‘Bindas Bol’ programmes on a plea raising grievances against it on grounds including hate speech, was irked over the fact that the channel, in his affidavit, has named one English news Channel for running two shows on Hindu terror earlier.