Supreme Court of India
Chief Election Commissioner of India v. M.r Vijayabhaskar & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above discussion, we find no substanc e in the 231 prayer of the EC for restraining the media from reporting on court proceedings.
Judgment, page 35
From the headnote
Constitution of India: Arts. 32, 226, 19(1)(a), 19(2) – Freedom of the media to repor t court proceedings – High Court made certain oral re marks attributing responsibility to the Election Commissi on-EC for the present surge in the number of cases of COVID-19, d ue to their failure to implement COVID-19 related protocol during the e lections – Oral remarks were ‘EC is singularly responsible fo r the second wave of Covid-19 and that the EC should be put up f or murder charges” – Said remarks though not part of order of the High Court, were reported in print, electronic and tele media – EC
Authorities it was built on
- 1977 Mohinder Singh Gill & Anr. v. The Chief Election Commissioner, New Delhi & Ors.
- 1966 Naresh Shridhar Mirajkar and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Anr.
- 2010 Md. Shahabuddin v. State of Bihar & Ors.
- 1963 Dr. Raghubir Sharan v. The State of Bihar
- 1990 A.M. Mathur v. Pramod Kumar Gupta
- 1992 Life Insurance Corpn. of India and Ors. Etc. v. Prof. Manubhai D. Shah Etc. Etc.
- 2018 Swapnil Tripathi v. Supreme Court of India
- 1996 Kashi Nath Roy v. State of Bihar
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