New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained all news channels from displaying or playing content of the charge sheet in the Shraddha Walkar murder case. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar also directed the Centre to ensure that no news channel displays such material till the disposal of the petition filed by Delhi Police.
The order was passed on a plea by the Delhi Police seeking to restrain media houses from publishing, printing, and disseminating confidential information contained in the charge sheet and other such materials collected during the course of the investigation in the case. Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad submitted that the Aaj Tak news channel has got access to the narco analysis video of accused Aaftab Poonawala and the channel was restrained by the trial court from showing any such content.
