HC asks TV channels not to upload defamatory content

Bollywood producers plea

New Delhi, December 14

The Delhi High Court on Monday extended its interim order asking media houses – AGR Outlier Media Pvt Ltd and Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd – to ensure that no defamatory content will be uploaded on social media platforms or displayed on their channels.

Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who was hearing a plea by Bollywood producers seeking to restrain them from making irresponsible remarks, listed the matter before the joint registrar for January 18 for completion of pleadings and admission/denial of documents.

“In the meantime, interim order of November 9 to continue,” the Judge said and fixed the suit for hearing before himself on March 23.

The high court, which was informed that the media houses and other parties, including intermediaries, have their replies to the suit, granted three weeks’ time to the Bollywood producers to file replication to the responses.

It had earlier sought replies of Republic TV, its Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and reporter Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now Editor-in-Chief Rahul Shivshankar and Group Editor Navika Kumar, and intermediaries Google, Facebook and Twitter on the leading Bollywood producers’ plea. – PTI