Rakul Preet Singh moves Delhi High Court, seeks direction to restrain media coverage on her in Bollywood drug case
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Rakul Preet Singh has moved the Delhi High Court in search of pressing interim instructions from the court docket restraining media from operating reveals or publishing articles towards her in reference to the drug probe which emerged out following the dying of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The matter is more likely to come up for listening to within the coming week.
The petition filed by way of advocates Himanshu Yadav, Aman Hingorani and Shweta Hingorani claims that Rakul Preet has been in Hyderabad for a movie shoot and was shocked to see media stories within the night of September 29 to the impact that the Narcotics Control Bureau, Mumbai has summoned her to look earlier than it in Mumbai on September 24 in reference to the continuing investigation within the Rhea Chakraborty`s medicine case.
“…the Petitioner had received no such summons from the NCB at either of her Hyderabad or Mumbai addresses and accordingly she remained in Hyderabad. The Petitioner`s father, Col. Kulvinder Singh (Retd), decided to take the morning flight on 24.9.2020 to Mumbai from Hyderabad to ascertain the truth of such reports,” the plea stated.
“…however, from the evening of 23.9.2020 itself, the media started running fake news to the effect that the Petitioner, who was in Hyderabad, had supposedly reached Mumbai on the evening of 23.9.2020 for the NCB investigation,” it stated additional.
It added that round 11.20 a.m. on September 24, the Petitioner acquired summons beneath Section 67 of the NDPS Act dated September 23 by way of WhatsApp in Hyderabad which stated that she needed to seem in particular person earlier than the NCB, Mumbai at 10 a.m. on September 24.
It is from the e-mail dated September 24 from the NCB that the Petitioner learnt that case during which she has been required to look has been registered as Crime No. MZU/NCB/15/2020, the plea stated.
Earlier this month, Rakul had approached the High Court in search of its course in an effort to ask the media to not telecast, publish or flow into on the TV channels, cable, print or social media, because the case could also be, any content material within the context of Actress Rhea Chakraborty`s narcotic medicine case that maligns or slanders the Petitioner or which accommodates something defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half-truths in respect of the Petitioner, or to make use of sensational headlines, images, video-footage or social media hyperlinks which invade the privateness of the Petitioner.
While issuing discover on the stated plea, a single-judge bench of the excessive court docket presided by Justice Navin Chawla had stated, “There has to be some restraint. Media gets to know info even before the officers themselves. Reputations are getting tarnished.”
“It is hoped that media houses and TV channels would show restraint and abide by the Program Code and other guidelines while making any report in connection with Rakul Preet Singh,” the bench had stated additional.
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