Rakul Preet Singh requests Delhi HC to restrict media coverage on her in the drug probe
Bollywood actor Rakul Preet Singh approaches the Delhi High Court seeking for urgent interim directions from the court to
Bollywood actor Rakul Preet Singh approaches the Delhi High Court seeking for urgent interim directions from the court to restrain media from publishing news articles against her linked to the drug probe in connection to death case of SSR. The matter will come up for hearing this week.
The matter is likely to come up for hearing in the coming week. Advocates Himanshu Yadav, Aman Hingorani and Shweta Hingorani filed the petition on her behalf. The petition claims of her being shocked to see the media reports, which said that she has been summoned by the NCB to spear before them on the 24th of September in connection with the ongoing drug probe in Bollywood.
The plea said, “…the Petitioner had received no such summons from the NCB at either of her Hyderabad or Mumbai addresses, and accordingly she remained in Hyderabad. The Petitioner’s father, Col. Kulvinder Singh (Retd), decided to take the morning flight on 24.9.2020 to Mumbai from Hyderabad to ascertain the truth of such reports,”
“…however, from the evening of 23.9.2020 itself, the media started running fake news to the effect that the Petitioner, who was in Hyderabad, had supposedly reached Mumbai on the evening of 23.9.2020 for the NCB investigation,” it said further.
It added that “around 11.20 a.m. on September 24, the Petitioner received summons under Section 67 of the NDPS Act dated September 23 through WhatsApp in Hyderabad which said that she had to appear in person before the NCB, Mumbai at 10 a.m. on September 24.”
“It is from the email dated September 24 from the NCB that the Petitioner learnt that case in which she has been required to appear has been registered as Crime No. MZU/NCB/15/2020,” the plea said.
The actress had approached the High Court seeking its orders that restrict the media for not telecasting, publishing or circulating on the TV channels, print or social media, any content in context of Actress Rhea Chakraborty’s narcotic drugs case that maligns or slanders the Petitioner or which contains anything defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half-truths in respect of the Petitioner, or to use sensational headlines, photographs, video-footage or social media links which invade the privacy of the Petitioner.
A single judge bench of the high court presided by Justice Navin Chawla had said, while issuing the notice,“There has to be some restraint. Media gets to know info even before the officers themselves. Reputations are getting tarnished.”
He further said,“It is hoped that media houses and TV channels would show restraint and abide by the Program Code and other guidelines while making any report in connection with Rakul Preet Singh”.
