BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya gets court order to gag media

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March 31, 2019

Bengaluru, Mar 31: L S Tejasvi Surya, BJP candidate for Bengaluru South, has obtained a temporary injunction order from a local civil court restraining media outlets from publishing “defamatory statements” against him. A candidate getting a gag order on media during campaign has raised many eyebrows.

The court order bars 49 media outlets including English and Kannada newspapers and TV stations as well as social media giants like Facebook and Google from publishing “false, malicious and derogatory” news about Surya.

Ordering the temporary injunction on March 29, the court observed that “It appears that some of the prima facie defamatory messages pertaining to him is in transit in the media’’ and that “the plaintiff has produced a copy of a Twitter publication that is called ‘Me too case against Tejaswi Surya’”.

Surya named 49 media houses as defendants in his suit filed before the civil judge. The publications named include The Times of India, The Hindu and Deccan Herald, among English publications, and Kannada newspapers like Prajavani, Kannada Prabha, Vijaya Karnataka and Udayavani. 

The suit also names TV9, Suvarna News and Public TV among Kannada channels; WhatsApp, YouTube, Yahoo India, Facebook India and Google India among online media and CNN News 18, Times Now, India Today, News X and Republic TV among English television channels.

Based on the order of the city civil judge Surya’s advocates issued notices to the media on Friday stating “you are not at liberty to publish any scandalous and defamatory statements or any fake news as against our Client’’.

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Kannadiga
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Sunday, 31 Mar 2019

Don't spend your precious time behind such mindset . We the Kannadigas require developlements unity and peace of full life. This is sort of tactic only to gain publicity so never respect to or support such candidates.

Whoever which ever political party they may belongs,

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