By The urban center supreme court on Wednesday allowed ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd, that runs Republic TV, to amend its petition thus on challenge the chargesheet filed by Bombay Police within the pretend TRP case. the corporate had filed a petition for quashing the FIR registered by the Bombay Police within the case and summons issued to its senior officers.
The supreme court additionally continuing associate degree interim relief through that it directed the Bombay Police to summon workers of Hansa analysis cluster, litigator within the case, for inquiry solely 2 days every week for a “reasonable time” till succeeding hearing. the corporate had asked for the probe to be transferred to the CBI.
On day, a division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice M S Karnik, that is hearing the case, directed the Bombay Police to submit a study within the TRP scam case in a very sealed cowl, that it took on record on Wednesday. The court additionally allowed the petitioners to form the CBI a celebration to the case and issued notices to the central agency to reply to the plea.
On Monday, the Bombay Police Crime Branch filed a one,400-page chargesheet within the case, naming six channels, as well as those of Republic Media Network and News Nation, as allegedly paying cash to spice up TRPs for around 2 years.
On Wednesday, senior counsel Aabad Ponda, representing Republic TV, sought-after leave to amend the plea with challenges to the chargesheet. He sought-after a brief adjournment to listen to the amended plea on Fri.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the authorities, objected to Ponda’s submission and aforementioned the petitioners ought to place on record the grounds on that the chargesheet is sought-after to be challenged so the govt will get a chance to reply.
Sibal said, “Every matter of Arnab Goswami can’t be fast-tracked like this. he’s a normal litigator and not a rare national. I don’t perceive what this procedure is.”
The HC allowed time to the petitioners to amend the plea until Fri and serve a duplicate to the authorities so it will reply to it. The bench noted, “We have allowed the petition to be amended subject to the reply and contentions of the state on change. Petitioners will amend while not inflicting prejudice to the proper of respondents (state).”
While the lawyers explore for the pertain be mounted for hearing next week, the bench aforementioned, “If we tend to fix a time, then alternative litigants say we tend to offer mounted timings just for sure matters.”
Sibal additionally sought-after that Republic TV mustn’t begin a “parallel investigation” on its channel concerning the chargesheet until succeeding hearing. The court, however, asked the authorities to submit associate degree application therein relevance change the channel to file the reply. Ponda responded that he would take directions from Republic TV over this issue and build a press release at succeeding hearing. The court can hear the pleas on Gregorian calendar month two.
