New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a complete ban on British media house BBC in India. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court after the latest BBC documentary on the Gujarat riots created an uproar in India. Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta and another had filed a petition in the apex court demanding a nationwide ban on BBC. However, the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions terming them as false and bogus.It was said in the petition that BBC, with its factless documentary, had created such a situation in the country which posed a challenge to law and order. The petitioner has also quoted earlier reports of BBC that this foreign media is suffering from anti-India mentality. However, the Supreme Court said that the petition had no merit and was based on incorrect facts. A bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna of the Supreme Court dismissed the application of Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta and another in this case, saying that the entire application is wrong and false.
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The Supreme Court told the petitioner that how can you give such an argument? Senior Advocate Pinky Anand appeared for the petitioner and said that it is important that the documentary is presented at such a time when there is an Indian-origin PM in the UK. India is an emerging economic power. Then the bench said that do you think that the documentary will affect it? What difference is it going to make? What application is this? You want total censorship? The Supreme Court said that his time should not be wasted and dismissed the application. The petition alleged that the BBC was biased against India.
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Significantly, during the hearing on the petition filed against the ban on the documentary of BBC in the Gujarat case, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Central Government and asked it to file a reply. A bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna of the Supreme Court had asked the central government to place before the court the original records on the basis of which the order to ban the BBC documentary has been passed. The next hearing in this matter will be in April.