Shelter home case: Patna HC urged to revoke order on media
The sexual assault of 34 girls over a period of time came to light after a social audit was conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Patna: Senior journalists of Patna on Sunday urged the Patna high court to “reconsider and revoke” its August 23 order restraining the media from reporting the investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter home abuse case.
It was because of media reports that abuse of inmates of the Muzaffarpur shelter home had come to the notice of all and even the Supreme Court had taken cognisance of it, a statement signed by senior journalists of prominent houses of both print and electronic media said.
In the statement, the scribes urged the HC "to reconsider and revoke its decision to uphold the principles of free media in a democracy and allow media to report on the ongoing investigation related with the Muzaffarpur shelter hom-e case.” The Patna high court was monitoring the probe into the sordid episode at the government-funded short stay home for girls at Muzaffarpur on the request of the Bihar government. A division bench of Chief Justice Mukesh R Shah and Justice Ravi Ranjan on August 23 had expressed displeasure over leak of details of the investigation and asked the media to refrain from publishing the same.