SC seeks Centre’s reply on police-media interaction
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking guidelines governing how police and law-enforcement authorities interact with journalists during protests and crowd-control operations.
The apex court was hearing a plea which claimed that several journalists, including women media professionals, were assaulted and treated badly by the police while covering the protests in Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. “We would like to lay down guidelines,” a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed after senior advocate Indira Jaising,
