PIL filed in HC against 60 media houses for videographing, harassing Hijab wearing students, teacher
Bengaluru: A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed by Abdul Mansoor, Mohammed Khalil, and Asif Ahmed before the Karnataka High Court Against more than 60 media houses seeking orders to restrain media from chasing and video graphing Hijab-wearing students and teachers who are on their way to schools and colleges.
The plea stated that media establishments provoked by some vested interests are subjecting students to humiliation and disgrace by criminalizing their faith, belief, identity, culture, etc.
"Repeated attempts are being made to polarize, divide, and to communalize the student community by injecting the venom of hate, disrespect, and vengeance which ultimately culminates into violent actions and reactions,"
"Since one month, the cameramen and reporters are seen assembling in and around premises of government colleges and schools wherever the female children and teachers are proceeding to attend their classes, they were being chased, abusing, screaming, sloganeering, targeting, demeaning, compelling to uncloth themselves which are being photographed, videographed, and being printed and telecasted around 24/7 hours with the sole intention of belittling the democratic values and cherished principles of unity in diversity," the PIL stated.
Apart from the media houses, the plea has mentioned social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp, along with search engines Google, Yahoo, and Video posting platform YouTube as respondents.
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Autorickshaw fare is more than airline fare, says HC while refusing capping of airfares
New Delhi, May 15: Observing that airline industry is "very very competitive" and the players are running "huge losses", the Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it would not be appropriate to pass any directions for the capping of airfares across the country.
"Market forces will decide the pricing of tickets. The industry is doing very well today. You look at any airline flying today, it is a highly competitive industry. An auto rickshaw fare is more than the airline fare today," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora said.
The court disposed of two petitions seeking regulation of pricing of flight tickets and said it would pass a detailed order.
"Today the industry is very very competitive. You will find those who are running airlines are into huge losses," the bench said, adding huge investment is coming in this sector and "let's not make it more regulated".
"It is a well-controlled sector. Every industry which is doing well need not be tampered with," the bench said.
It said stray incidents will not require the court to entertain public interest litigations (PIL) on the issue and bring the entire sector under any new regulation.
The two PILs were filed by advocate Amit Sahni and consumer rights activist Bejon Misra, through lawyer Shashank Deo Sudhi.
The petitioners urged the court to pass directions to cap airfares across the country so that customers are not "fleeced arbitrarily" by airlines.
The counsel for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) opposed the plea and submitted that the airfares depend on the routes as well as the availability of planes and sometimes there are very few passengers in the aircraft and yet they fly.
