{"id":19344,"date":"2012-04-12T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=19344"},"modified":"2012-04-12T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:03:04","slug":"dont-cross-lakshman-rekha-on-media-curbs-supreme-court-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/dont-cross-lakshman-rekha-on-media-curbs-supreme-court-urged","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t cross &#8216;Lakshman Rekha&#8217; on media curbs, Supreme Court urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/dont-cross-lakshman-rekha-on-media-curbs-supreme-court-urged\/supreme-court-205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19346\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19346\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/dont-cross-lakshman-rekha-on-media-curbs-supreme-court-urged\/supreme-court-205\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.jpg?fit=186%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"186,140\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.jpg?fit=186%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19346\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>While protecting the rights of an accused to a free and fair trial not prejudiced by media reporting, the Supreme Court should not cross the &#8216;Lakshman Rekha&#8217; of reasonable restrictions provided in the constitution, a senior counsel contended Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>An apex court constitution bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice D.K. Jain, Justice S.S. Nijjar, Justice R.P. Desai and Justice J.S. Khehar was told by senior counsel Anil Divan that the restriction on free speech and expression could only be reasonable and confined to those specified under Article 19(2).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a Lakshman Rekha. You can&#8217;t go beyond Article 19(2) to protect the (right guaranteed under) Article 21. 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