{"id":60573,"date":"2019-02-11T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=60573"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:46:22","slug":"sunanda-pushkar-case-delhi-court-orders-filing-of-fir-against-arnab-goswami-on-tharoors-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/sunanda-pushkar-case-delhi-court-orders-filing-of-fir-against-arnab-goswami-on-tharoors-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunanda Pushkar case: Delhi court orders filing of FIR against Arnab Goswami on Tharoor\u2019s complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper wpb_text_column td_block_wrap td_block_wrap vc_column_text tdi_5  tagdiv-type td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\"  data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_5\" ><div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\"><\/div><div class=\"td-fix-index\"><p><strong>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had alleged that Arnab Goswami illegally accessed confidential documents relating to the probe in Pushkar\u2019s death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Patiala House Court has directed the Delhi Police to register a First Information Report against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/arnab-goswami\">Republic TV and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami<\/a> on a complaint filed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor had moved the court seeking directions to the police for filing an FIR against Goswami. The Congress MP had alleged that Tharoor and his news channel \u201cillegally accessed confidential documents\u201d related to the investigation into Pushkar\u2019s mysterious death and broadcast them on Republic TV. It has also been alleged that Goswami accessed Tharoor\u2019s Email account without his authority or consent and shared the personal emails on the news channel. Tharoor\u2019s counsel had informed the court that the Delhi police, through a reply sought under the RTI Act, had stated that \u201cit is not permissible to share the information\/documents related to any investigation to any public member\/media till the case is pending investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor\u2019s legal team also informed the court that the Congress MP had first filed a complaint with the Delhi police regarding \u201ctheft of those documents\/materials and regarding hacking of his Email account.\u201d However, the Delhi police failed to take any action on his complaint following which Tharoor was forced to move court.<\/p>\n<p>Passing an order directing the Delhi police to register an FIR against Goswami and investigate the alleged illegalities committed by him and Republic TV, Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh, said: \u201cThis court is of the considered view that in view of allegations leveled by complainant and material produced on record in the form of RTI replies and other material, matter discloses commission of cognizable offence\u2026 and requires investigation by police as it is not clear that how said material came in the possession of proposed accused persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order was passed on January 21.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Goswami has come into trouble with the courts for his and Republic TV\u2019s reporting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/sunanda-pushkar\">Sunanda Pushkar death case<\/a>. Earlier, on December 1, 2017, the Delhi High Court had passed strident strictures against Goswami stating: \u201cbefore airing any story pertaining to the plaintiff (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/shashi-tharoor\">Shashi Tharoor<\/a>), the defendants (Arnab Goswami and Republic TV) shall give the plaintiff a written notice, by electronic mode, asking for his version\u201d, and added that if the Congress MP refuses to reply to these queries then \u201che will not be compelled to speak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi High Court had also noted: \u201cmedia reporting should be sensitive to the indeterminacy of the questions raised in the proceedings\u201d and that the \u201cpress cannot \u2018convict\u2019 anyone or insinuate that he\/she is guilty or make any other unsubstantiated claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>\u2014India Legal Bureau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246],"tags":[4022,950,1377,39,5828,4660,454],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2019\/02\/11144616\/r_logo_1024x1024-696x392.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}