Hyderabad (Telangana): A petition has been filed in the Telangana High Court by VIL Media, a private company, seeking a direction to permit the media to report and telecast the ongoing demolition of the secretariat at Saidabad here, as the media persons are restrained from covering the secretariat building.
"We have filed a petition for the unreasonable restrictions imposed by the Telangana government on the press. The demolition activity started from July 15 onwards. The government is not at all allowing the press irrespective of channels print or electronic media," said Sampath, counsel for the petitioner.
"Demolition of the secretariat is a public affair and everything happens in the public domain. People have the right to know everything. Right to information and the right to be informed are important in a democracy. The state government has curtailed these two basic rights with an executive order. These rights are guaranteed under Article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution of India," he said.
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