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Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has restrained a Delhi-based news website, Cobrapost.com, from posting on its site or transmitting to television channels or print media a sting operation that it had conducted on a diagnostic centre operating from a private hospital here. Admitting the writ petition filed by T.B.S. Buxi who runs the diagnostic centre, Vacation Judge R.S. Sodhi ordered that the website and its staff shall not in any manner release, telecast or transmit the reported sting operation either on its website, any television channels, or print media till further orders. Mr. Justice Sodhi also observed that the petition had raised substantial questions of law that needed to be adjudicated by the Court.
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The petitioner through his advocate Sanjay Jain submitted that certain functionaries of the website had recorded interviews with them and activities at the diagnostic centre and the hospital in the name of a famous television news channel. Mr. Jain said the website now was threatening his client that it would telecast the sting operation on television channels. He urged the Court to issue directions to the Union Government and the Delhi Government to frame guidelines to regulate the conduct of sting operations as they were being used to blackmail and sully the image of respectable people. Mr. Jain further submitted that sting operations could not be telecast without permission of the Central Film Certification Board as no pre-recorded film could be exhibited without permission of the Board under the Cinematograph Act, 1952, and the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995. Besides the Centre and the Delhi Government, the police have also been made a respondent in the case.
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