The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear arguments from March 27 on framing of guidelines for media on reporting of judicial proceedings.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia took up the issue on filing of applications for framing of guidelines by senior advocate Fali S Nariman and market regulator Sebi. The proceedings emanated from alleged leakage of advocate’s proposal of Sahara Group’s list of property sent to Sebi’s counsel.
The CJI directed that any party, who desired to make submissions in the matter, could do so by way of intervention. The court, however, did not take note of Broadcaster’s Association counsel Anoop Bhambani’s plea that four separate benches of the apex court were dealing with cases on various facets of reporting by print and electronic media.
The apex court had on February 12 expressed anguish over a TV channel’s broadcast of a proposal sent by Sahara’s counsel to the advocate of Sebi. It had said such incidents had been on the increase which affected business sentiment and also interfered in administration of justice. The court had said it would pass appropriate orders regarding reporting of sub-judice matters.