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Sunday, July 18, 2010 (22:08:22) |
| Tags : Valmiki, Ramayana, Supreme Court |
What court can do, TV can't |
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| New Delhi, July 18: Can Valmiki, the author of the epic Ramayana, be described as a dacoit in a television serial simply because the Supreme Court had made similar references to him in judgments?
Senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi asked the vacation bench to stay proceedings in a trial court against a television channel for airing a serial wherein Valmiki was described as a "thief". Rohtagi said: "If I am guilty of calling Valmiki a thief, so is the Supreme Court". He referred to three judgments of the apex court wherein Valmiki was described as a dacoit.
But the court washed its hands off. It said by airing the information in a TV serial "you have taken the information to people who did not even know it".
Valmiki, before becoming a saint, was indeed a notorious bandit by the name of Ratnakar. But for the judges, it was clearly a case of once bitten twice shy. After all, in actress Khushboo's case, misreporting of the court's observations on the relationship between the divine Radha and Krishna had given anxious moments to one particular judge. (IANS) |
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