Supreme Court rejects plea to gag media on Adani-Hindenburg issue

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The Supreme Court of India. Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on February 24 refused point-blank a request to gag the media from reporting on the Adani-Hindenburg issue until the apex court passes an order on the formation of an expert committee...

No gag on the media. We will pass our order, we will do what we have to do, Chief Justice Chandrachud told advocate M.L. Sharma, who made the request during the mentioning hour...

We want to maintain full transparency, Chief Justice Chandrachud had explained to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the government, in the previous hearing on February 17...

The court had said that accepting the governments suggestions in a hush-hush manner would prove detrimental to the credibility of the committee and its future work in the eyes of the nation...

Otherwise, even if we do not accept two names [proposed by the government for the committee], they (petitioners) will not have any way of knowing, Chief Justice Chandrachud, heading a three-judge Bench, had said categorically.. Mr. Mehta said he had no difficulty with the courts reasoning..

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