The upcoming Chief Justice of India, Justice Bobde said in an interview that Judges too get bothered by criticism on social media and people commenting on a case, by personally attacking the judge and raising questions on his personal identity is excessive use of free speech.
I’m glad it’s time, someone actually realised this and I really hope the courts should realise super soon how strongly media plays a role in triggering these personal attacks & mockery 🙏
If anyone also remembers in 2017, we saw a news headline of The Hindu that said ‘Women sandals without straps are not slippers - rules Delhi High Court’
This lead to the entire Twitter erupting and people attacking & mocking the court for spending time on deciding what is a sandal by numerous dumbwits who did not even read the case, because if they’d read they’d know that it was a matter of tax, which is different for different type of footwear and the court was deciding if the petitioner was being taxed for something else while he was manufacturing something else.
BUT the Court was made fun of, because The Hindu decided to induce in a clickbait in a court case.
Media houses have developed a new trend, first spread misinformation on social media and then delete it.
Even really tiny websites like The Frustrated Indian once wrote that the Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who recently criticised the government policies, in 2012 wrote an article in The Hindu, in an attempt to justify the Nirbhaya Case.
First, they got it circulated, tried to tarnish his image and then later deleted it when someone certain pointed out that Abhijit’s article was posted 2 months before the Nirbhaya Case even happened.
I earnestly pray, that in near future the court stricts the liability of media houses and start slapping fines for inducing clickbaits, unnecessary outrage porn, and spreading misinformation in the matter of law, court and cases ❤️