Updated: November 17, 2020 1:51:20 pm
The Jamaat made headlines in March after the Nizamuddin Markaz emerged as a hotspot.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court expressed its displeasure at the Affidavit of the center in the case related to media reports from the Tablighi Jamaat congregation during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and said it should consider establishing a regulatory mechanism to deal with such content on television .
“First you did not file a proper affidavit and then you did file an affidavit that did not address the two important issues. It cannot be done this way, Mr. Mehta, ”a bank headed by the Chief Justice, SA Bobde, told Attorney General Tushar Mehta. “We want to know what is the mechanism to treat this content on television. If there is no regulatory mechanism, create one. Regulation cannot be left to an organization like NBSA, “said the court, which also includes judges AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian.
By asking the Center to believe and inform you about the mechanism, the higher court has released the matter for hearing after three weeks.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind had moved the Supreme Court on April 6 seeking instructions to prevent what it claimed was the communalization of the Nizamuddin Markaz issue by sections of the print and electronic media.
The center had filed his affidavit in the matter on August 7, noting that the spread of Covid-19 among those attending the Jamaat, the attacks on health workers by some sections, etc., were facts and that “news based on facts … cannot be censored ”.
He also said that Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s allegation raised complaints against “a certain section of the media” without naming any and “certain news reports” without producing these reports. Instead, he “simply relied on ‘certain fact-checking news reports’ to assert that the entire media is perpetrating disharmony and hatred towards Muslims, and therefore should be censored / gagged,” said the government.
(With PTI inputs)
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