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NEW DELHI, 30 Jan:<\/strong> The Supreme Court will hear pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots on Monday next week.<\/p>\n A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday took note of the submissions of lawyer ML Sharma and senior advocate CU Singh, appearing for veteran journalist N Ram and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, seeking urgent listing of their separate PILs on the issue.<\/p>\n At the outset of the proceedings, lawyer Sharma, who has filed a PIL in his personal capacity, mentioned the plea and sought urgent hearing.<\/p>\n “It will be listed on Monday,” said the bench, also comprising Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala.<\/p>\n “People were being arrested. Please list it urgently,” Sharma submitted.<\/p>\n “You can speak to social media from elsewhere. It will be listed on Monday,” the bench said.<\/p>\n Minutes later, senior advocate CU Singh mentioned the separate plea on the issue filed by Ram and Bhushan. He made a mention of tweets by Ram and Bhushan<\/p>\n \u00a0being deleted allegedly by using emergency powers. He also said that students in Ajmer were rusticated for streaming the BBC documentary.<\/p>\n “We will list,” the CJI said.<\/p>\n Sharma filed the PIL against the Centre’s decision to block the documentary, alleging that it is “malafide, arbitrary and unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n The PIL also urged the apex court to call and examine the BBC documentary – both Parts 1 and 2 – and sought action against persons who were responsible and involved directly and indirectly with the 2002 Gujarat riots.<\/p>\n Sharma said that in his PIL he has raised a constitutional question and the top court has to decide whether citizens have the right under Article 19 (1) (2) to see news, facts and reports on the 2002 Gujarat riots.<\/p>\n He has sought a direction to quash the information & broadcasting ministry’s order of 21 January, 2023, terming it illegal, malafide, arbitrary and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n The plea claimed that the BBC documentary has “recorded facts” which are also “evidence” and can be used to further the cause of justice for the victims.<\/p>\n On 21 January, the Centre issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to the controversial BBC documentary India: The Modi Question. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 30 Jan: The Supreme Court will hear pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots on Monday next week. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday took note of the submissions of lawyer ML Sharma and senior advocate CU Singh, appearing for veteran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}