Delhi (The Stellar News) Saksham Kalia: Chief Justice of India N.V Ramana gave a statement while hearing petitions highlighting that certain media channels or institutions had linked the communal angle of spread of Coronavirus to a Tablighi Jamaat meet held at Nizamuddin in Delhi.
Chief Justice of India N.V Ramana on Thursday said that some sections of media communalized everything and this would ultimately result the bad name of country.
Three judges bench, observed orally that, “The problem is everything shown in the country is linked with the communal angle, and this will let country into bad name”.
CJI also upbraid the lack of accountability on the part of social media platforms. He also slammed social media platforms who only respond to “powerful people”, while complaints made by ordinary people, Institutions and judges over content were ignored.
“These web channels, twitter, Facebook, toutube… they never respond. There is no accountability. About the institution they write badly and then they do not respond.. this is the condition of institutions, forget individuals… they consider only people who are powerful. Institutions, common man, judges, they do not..this is the reality,” CJI Ramana noted.
