Justice Chandrachud asks Suresh Chavhanke's counsel
1) Do you think you did comply with the programme code when the first 4 episodes were broadcast?
2) Are you inclined to continue in the same vein if you are convinced that you have complied?
Adv Jain for Suresh Chavhanke Says NDTV broadcasted something similar.
Justice Chandrachud: If you start shooting your mouth on affidavits, we will stop asking questions. If in 2032, someone seeks to question what you broadcasted in 2022? There is something of lapse of time.
enior Adv Sanjay Hegde: Please hear Zakat Foundation at the end.
Justice Chandrachud: So a watching brief has now become an impleadment!
Hegde: My lords need to hear us as allegations are against us.
Advocate for NBA: For NBA we have filed our affidavit. We refute what the NBF is saying.
Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani says that an intervention application has been filed by a Malayalam Daily Janmabhoomi
Justice Chandrachud: We will hear intervenors at the end.
Deepak refers to a report which he says that the bench must consider while laying down principles.
Justice Indu Malhotra: Who has prepared this report?
Deepak: OP india
Your main contention is that SC has no jurisdiction is it?
Advocate J Sai Deepak: We are on the question of jurisdiction, principles of Hate Speech and a report which assists my lord on the aspects of free speech
Advocate J Sai Deepak: I have filed applications of behalf of OPindia, Indic Collective and Upword Foundation.
The primary intervention is with respect to what shall have a direct bearing on the aspects of "Hate speech".
Rohatgi: NBA does not really represent the entire spectrum.
I would like a weeks time to place our views which are essentially views of all regional channels in India.
Rohatgi says that NBF (News Broadcasters Federation) is the largest body of channels in India and has a majority of all regional channels.