Kerala Government has opposed the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to transfer a gold smuggling case to Karnataka and said that the probe agency’s plea was to tarnish the Government of Kerala by raising baseless allegations. Kerala government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, submitted that after having completed... The post appeared first on .

Kerala Government has opposed the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to transfer a gold smuggling case to Karnataka and said that the probe agency’s plea was to tarnish the Government of Kerala by raising baseless allegations. Kerala government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, submitted that after having completed... The post appeared first on .

Kerala Government has opposed the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to transfer a gold smuggling case to Karnataka and said that the probe agency’s plea was to tarnish the Government of Kerala by raising baseless allegations. Kerala government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, submitted that after having completed... The post appeared first on .

Kerala Government has opposed the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to transfer a gold smuggling case to Karnataka and said that the probe agency’s plea was to tarnish the Government of Kerala by raising baseless allegations. Kerala government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, submitted that after having completed... The post appeared first on .

Kerala Government has opposed the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to transfer a gold smuggling case to Karnataka and said that the probe agency’s plea was to tarnish the Government of Kerala by raising baseless allegations. Kerala government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, submitted that after having completed... The post appeared first on .

Kochi Apr 19 PTI Trial by media results in denigration of the justice delivery system and prejudicing mankind against the parties involved the Kerala High Court on Tuesday observed while restraining a news channel from publishing or broadcasting anything except orders of the trial court regarding the brother-in-law of actor Dileep while reporting about the actress assault case Justice Mohammed Nias C P said the interim direction would remain in effect for a period of three weeks from today The order came on a plea by Dileeps brother-in-law T N Suraj who has alleged that certain police officers were leaking out materials allegedly collected during investigation and including those from the in camera trial in the 2017 case and that the same was forming the basis for false and fabricated stories in the media The court in its interim order directed the police officers accused of leaking information about the case to file affidavits dealing with the said allegations The State Police Chief was directed to ensure that no information regarding the investigation of the 2017 actress assault case shall be leaked out to anyone by any of the investigating officers Suraj in his plea has also alleged that the news channel was fabricating more and more allegations against Dileep and him about matters which are pending investigation and are sub judice in the ongoing trial He has further claimed that the news channel was resorting to sensationalism publication broadcast of fabricated allegations against the accused persons and their associates Such reporting interferes with the administration of justice causes prejudice to the petitioner and damages his reputation and that of his close relatives Suraj has contended in his plea After perusing the news items telecast by the channel that were placed before the court it said if what was placed before it was true then it was nothing but gross interference in the due administration of justice The petitioners apprehension that the 6th respondent news channel will indulge in similar telecasts in future has sound basis As stated above since these reports interferesobstructs the due course of justice going by the principles culled out from the various decisions of the Apex Court the sixth respondent is to be prevented from telecastingpublishing the reports in the nature of contents revealed in the exhibits the high court said The court went on to say that media cannot usurp the jurisdiction of the courts which alone have the constitutional authority to decide the guiltinnocence of a person or decide on the content quality or the width of any right available to any citizenaccusedsuspect Half truths and misinformation cannot be the basis of publications or telecasts The media cannot be given the right to speculate on the outcome of the ongoing investigations or the court proceedings or criminal trials Publication of leaks from the investigation agencies and to level allegations against individuals based on such leaks are not protected by the freedom of press under Article 19 a of the Constitution the high court said It further said that reportstelecast have the effect of prejudicing mankind against the parties and the court before the case is heard clearly and therefore it interferes with the course of justice In a trial by the media which apart from adversely affecting the rights of an accused for a fair trial has immense power to influence public opinion A perception is created for or against the accused in the mind of the laymen So much so that when a Judge passes a verdict which may be totally against the laymans perception it causes him to distrust the integrity of the very legal system This loss of faith in the justice delivery system is aggravated when the judge not the judgment itself is subjected to media criticism Justice Nias said In such cases trial by media results in denigration of the justice delivery system which without doubt is the very foundation of the rule of law in any democratic set up the court added PTI HMP ROH ROH

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Madurai Jan 31 PTI The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday directed transferring the probe into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old girl allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI Justice G R Swaminathan ordered the transfer of the case after hearing the arguments of the petitioner the girls father and also the school management This Court has a duty to render posthumous justice to the child The foregoing circumstances cumulatively taken will definitely create an impression that the investigation is not proceeding on the right lines I therefore direct the Director Central Bureau of Investigation New Delhi to assign an officer to take over investigation from the State Police the court ruled CBI will undertake an independent investigation and shall not take into account any of the observations made in this order the judge added The 17-year-old student of the missionary school in Thanjavur belonged to Ariyalur district A few days ago she died of suicide The girl a hostel inmate was allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity A video clip in this connection had gone viral The school management had rejected the allegation and had blamed vested interests The victims father had demanded a CB-CID investigation but in the final hearing the original prayer was given up and the request was for transfer of investigation to CBI the court said PTI SSN SA SA HDA HDA