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HC restrains telecast of sting operation
Delhi HC passed an injunction restraining Cobrapost.Com from making public transcripts of a sting operation.
The Delhi High Court on Friday passed an injunction restraining Cobrapost.Com from making public transcripts of a sting operation allegedly conducted by a private website against a prominent corporate hospital and diagnostic centre in the Capital.
Vacation Judge Justice RS Sodhi also admitted a writ petition filed by the complainant TBS Buxi seeking the court's intervention in formulating proper guidelines to curb such sting operations which the petitioner claimed was part of blackmailing tactics and sullied the image of respectable individuals.
Justice Sodhi ordered that the website and its staff shall not in any manner release, telecast or transmit the reported sting operation either on its site, any TV channel or other print medium until further orders.
The directions were passed on a petition filed by Buxi, wherein he alleged that certain members of the website using the name of a popular satellite channel recorded interviews with him and activities at the diagnostic centre and hospital.
He claimed that the website was now threatening to release to all TV channels trascript copies of the interviews with a view to project the hospital and the diagnostic centre in a poor light.
Senior counsel Sanjay Jain appearing for the petitioner contended that under the Cinematograph Act and Cable TV Network Regulation Act, 1975, no pre-recorded film can be exhibited without prior approval of the Central Board of Film Certification.
