[LIVE UPDATES] SC Hearing On Plea Against Sudarshan TV's 'UPSC Jihad' Show

Divan: We have been operating for 15 years. We are there. We submit to the laws. We are here and we will face the consequences, only after we submit that we believe that we are not transgressing.

Divan refers to the Affidavit and states how Chavhanke considers the show to be a form of investigative journalism and how it is his duty to bring the truth to his audience. 

Divan: He is conscious of how the programme is a live stream and as far as his story is concerned, he is not against a particular community and just wants to present facts. This is a programme on investigative journalism. 

Divan: He is conscious of how the programme is a live stream and as far as his story is concerned, he is not against a particular community and just wants to present facts. This is a programme on investigative journalism. 

Divan refers to his Affidavit and he prefaces it with the submission that if facts of a journalist are solid, then one may make any inference. He states that the Editor-in-Chief is aware of these obligations and believes that they are solid facts. 

Divan: My third endeavour will be on the aspect of law. The fourth one will be how Constitutional courts should not enter into endeavours which indulge in prior restraint as that may create imbalance in the broader structures. 

Divan: This is going to be a serialised telecast, with 4 of the episodes behind us. I will classify the concerns in this Affidavit in 4-5 baskets. This will the second endeavour. 

Sr. Adv. Shyam Divan commences his submissions.

“I thank your Lordships for assembling today. I want to project what the concerns of the journalists are and there is a need for public discussion and debate”.

Hegde: We don't conduct any residential programs. We only pay the fees of the IAS coaching classes. Such social service is not being done even at the government level.

Justice Chandrachud: If you want to be impleaded, we’ll implead you. The more, the merrier.

Hegde: All that is being said here is often repeated outside the court. Today, there is an application for live telecast of the proceedings. Zakat Foundation of India is non-sectarian and out of 27 people the channel alleges, 4 are non Muslims.