[Reader-list] Fwd: Fw: Complaint against DNA's coverage of recent rape case in Mumbai

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear all

As per the blog and the news link given, it is utterly shocking for some,
but for me this is only a further fall into the depths to which our morality
as a society has sunk. Today, with the cut-throat competition and the kind
of rhetoric our society and many among us have fallen to, this is only the
next stage of the levels to which we can sink.

What shocks me so much is that why didn't people register a case against the
DNA, at least as a public interest litigation? After all, at least that
could have been done, with the SC today spending more time in deciding these
PIL's rather than other cases. Surely, that could have been done to take the
DNA to task for publishing such reports. Equally, the courts should have
also taken suo-motu cognizance of the case and punished the newspaper.

This is not only for this particular case; it has happened in many cases.

During 2002 riots, Gujarati newspaper 'Sandesh' gave false news items like
some Shiva temple destroyed somewhere or some other Hindu killed, when there
were none. Not less than the PUCL report proved it to be a bag of lies. Here
too, nothing happened.

Similarly our AIMIM also has indulged in various riots for which they spread
brilliant rumours, in old areas of Hyderabad.

The point is not that some people consider rape an entertainment first; some
fools and  hoodlum attitude-bearing people will always be born in a society
or will be created. The larger issue is that these should not be allowed to
conduct blasphemous acts which tantamount to spreading lies and falsedoms or
wrong methods.

The freedom of speech has an inherent duty within it that people should
speak the truth, and what they are not sure about, they should state that
it's their opinion. Resorting to lies is an insult to this freedom.

Regards

Rakesh