Supreme Court Rejects Demand: The Supreme Court has refused to hear the demand to ban the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India. The court has rejected the petition filed by Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta in this regard. In the petition, the BBC’s documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots was described as a conspiracy to destabilize India and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was also demanded to investigate this conspiracy.
Senior advocate Pinky Anand appeared on behalf of the petitioner before a bench of Justices Sanjeev Khanna and MM Sundresh. At the beginning of the hearing, Justice Khanna expressed surprise at the petition. He said, “Are you really expecting us to ban any broadcasting organization?” On this, Pinky Anand said that the court can give such instructions to the government. This can be done under the Information Technology Act.
The senior lawyer said that India has become the fifth largest economy in the world leaving Britain behind. Now a British organization is trying to harm India. On this, the judge said that a documentary will not make any difference to the country’s economy. Pinky Anand said that the BBC has been making misleading programs on all matters including the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, the 1992 Mumbai riots.
The judge was not convinced by any of the arguments. He said that there is no concrete basis for the petition. After this the bench dismissed the petition. Apart from Vishnu Gupta, a resident of Delhi, Birender Kumar Singh, a resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, was also a petitioner in the case.
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