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Hearing on political ads today
By Our Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI,
APRIL 12.
The Supreme Court today deferred hearing till tomorrow on the suggestion of the Election Commission to allow only recognised political parties and candidates to telecast advertisements in the electronic media for the coming Lok Sabha elections, and the Assembly elections in four States.
A three-Judge Bench, comprising the Chief Justice, V. N. Khare, and Justice S. B. Sinha and Justice S. H. Kapadia, acceded to the request of the Attorney-General, Soli Sorabjee, appearing for the Centre, and senior counsel for the Commission, K.K. Venugopal, to have the hearing tomorrow.
On April 8, the Bench granted time till today to Mr. Sorabjee to respond to the Commission's proposal and come out with the Government's stand.
The Bench is hearing an appeal filed by the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry against an Andhra Pradesh High Court interim order staying the operation of Rule 7 (3) of the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, which empowers the Government to ban political and surrogate advertisements in the electronic media. By an interim order, the Bench on April 2 had banned telecast of mudslinging and surrogate advertisements in the electronic media and cable networks.
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