The Supreme Court has registered a suo motu criminal contempt case against journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for his August 2020 tweets in which he allegedly criticized the judiciary. The case was registered by the Supreme Court on the basis of a petition from Aastha Khurana, the Bar and Bench reported. The …
Read More »Haryana Third State to File Cases Against Shashi Tharoor and Journalists
The complaint says the defendants spread misinformation on social media. New Delhi / Chandigarh: Gurugram police issued a first informational report against the leader of Congress, Shashi Tharoor, and high-level journalists such as Rajdeep Sardesai and Mrinal Pande in connection with the violence that broke out during the Delhi tractor …
Read More »‘The autopsy doctor told me that he had seen the gunshot wound but that he cannot do anything as his hands are tied’
Note: This story ends with a video of Navreet Singh’s facial injuries that some readers may find disturbing. New Delhi: The family of Navreet Singh, the young man killed during the tractor parade in the capital on January 26, has refused to accept the Delhi police claim that he died …
Read More »India today takes anchor Rajdeep Sardesai off the air and cuts monthly salary for retracted tweet
New Delhi: For the first time in India’s highly competitive television news industry, whose reporters and anchors were often rushed to air stories or news that subsequently turn out to be incorrect or even fabricated, India Today has taken senior presenter and consulting editor Rajdeep off the air. Sardesai. for …
Read More »Attorney General vetoes contempt case against journalist
The statement cited Rajdeep Sardesai’s tweets about the Supreme Court ruling in the Prashant Bhushan case. New Delhi: Lead journalist Rajdeep Sardesai should not be held in contempt, said the attorney general, who rejected requests to bring a case against the television news anchor over tweets that were accused of …
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