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Stop media trial

The overexposure of the Noida double murder (of student Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help Hemraj) in the visual media has reached a nauseating level. Ever since the tragic occurrence, competing television channels have devoted most of the news time to this story not to report facts but to theorise; not to inform the viewers but to counsel; and not to sympathise with the victim’s family but to sensationalise the murders. Even the dead have a right to privacy. It is time the visual media allowed the case to be dealt with by the law.

C.N.N. Nair,

Mumbai

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