Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Zee Anchor In Fake News Case On Thursday
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On July 2, a day after the video was aired, Rohit Ranjan had apologised for mistakenly playing Rahul Gandhi's statement out of context.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Thursday the plea of a TV news anchor, facing several FIRs in some states for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, seeking protection from coercive action for the alleged offence.
"List it tomorrow," a vacation bench of justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheswari said when senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for the TV anchor, sought an urgent hearing of the plea in view of registration of several FIRs against him in many states for telecast of the clip.
"This man was arrested yesterday by UP police at Noida and released on bail as the offence invoked was bailable, " he said, adding that the anchor made an error in one of the shows and apologised for that and the news was taken back.
"Now Chhattisgarh police want to arrest him. Please list this urgently since otherwise he will be in repeated custody," the senior lawyer said.
