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    Falak case: Court wants guidelines for media

    New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to constitute a committee on a plea that sought guidelines to regulate media reporting and disclosure of details about children in cases like that of baby Falak.

    Falak, who is two years old, was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences here Jan 18 with severe head injuries and human bite marks all over her face.

    A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw asked the Delhi government to set up a committee on media guidelines so that it could file a preliminary report by March 7.

    The committee will comprise of the presiding officer of the Juvenile Justice Board, representatives of the central and Delhi governments, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, the Press Council of India, media and NGOs.

    The court issued notice to the central and Delhi governments after taking note of a letter filed by a lawyer who sought framing of guidelines to regulate media reporting in cases like Falak's.

    The letter pointed to the media rush to report on Falak and a 15-year-old minor who allegedly brought the baby to the hospital. The teen-aged girl, who initially claimed to be Falak's mother, is now in a juvenile home.

    "Media reporting has sensationalized the life of both the children in a way and to such an extent that these children will never be able to get away from the memories of this time," the letter said.

    Officials of the police, hospital, the child welfare department and the father of the minor have disclosed every available detail on the child to the media, not realising the consequences of this.

    "India being a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is under obligation to ensure protection of law against any unlawful intervention into the privacy of a child or any attack on child's honour," said the lawyer.

     

    5 comments

    • Desh  •  Faridabad, Haryana  •  3 months ago
      Media should take up issues which are in public interest.The issues which serve only individual interest need not be taken up.How far the wedding of a film star/crickter or their illness serve the public interet.
    • India SOLD!  •  3 months ago
      .....the issues raised at Court is rightly of 'protect the identity/privacy' for their normal future and not to prevent from reporting the 'incident'. We need the issues than the individual face/features/identity. Imaging that minor girls plight with her faces being easily identified now where ever she goes and people looking at her and attributing this sordid details all along and never able to ward off that and regain personal self!

      Similarly, be it terrorist attack, rape, prostitution, etc., the timing of hot /breaking news and real identity exposes the security solution angle or the women and child who were forced into it etc. in very long term negative effect. Simple guidelines like - faces to be blocked entirely on photo, live feed of lunatic terror attacks alone to be delayed while focusing on alternate routes from 1 km away is reported for public to aware and stay away from and allow flow of security, ambulances while forcing the perpetrators to rely on their own contact that can caught by the security rather then offering them free live status ourselves.

      Certainly media plays crucial role and both publicity and privacy needs to be well balanced & timed.
    • uttamkumar  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      How can it be intervention on privacy of some one like FALAK, it is due to media that the AIMS and the Delhi Govt. is till date taking care of the unfortunate baby [FALAK] other wise they would have never done any thing like this that is for sure.
      The person who has asked to stop such media coverage should be made to stand on a busy Delhi road and beaten black and blue for his claim. "How can human being become such Shameless"
      From the Plea/case filed by the person [Lawyer] it seems he is supporting the human trafiking gangs operating in states.
      "India being a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is under obligation to ensure protection of law against any unlawful intervention into the privacy of a child or any attack on child's honour," said the lawyer. WHAT HONOUR HE IS TALKING ABOUT ONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHERE SO MANY LIFE HAS GOT SPOILED DUE TO POVERTY.
      ask this lawyer to foot FALAKS bill and rehabilitate the affected he will come to know then.
      The MEDIA should fight strongly against such people as the Govt. does not has the intent to help and will not do a thing against such person.
      • Bharathi 3 months ago
        U r absolutely right Uttam... these people use right things only at the wrong time
    • ThomasJ  •  Kochi, Kerala  •  3 months ago
      Jai Shri Ram ~~~ !!
    • TUGLAK  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      There should be full scale reforms on the TVs and TV news channels which should include: 1.TOTAL BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA DOING NONSENSE IN INDIA.
      2.The news to be telecast only 3 times a day and not 24x7.
      3. The news should be censored by an official of an autonomous Agency under an act of parliament, who sits at the TV channel telecast center like the Excise official in a Factory to ensure that the finished product is of proper quality for public consumption.
      4.The news should not in any way take away the confidence and trust the people have in their own country and their sense of belonging. They should focus on the developmental activities going on in the country
      5.Any news which can flare up Regional, Caste-based, religious sentiments should be BANNED outright.
      6.The public fora being shown on TV as debates should be subjected to thorough scrutiny and
      7. No politician should be given more coverage than a fixed time in any channel in a week or month.
      There should be a committee to frame these type of rules under an Indepenedent constitutional authority like the EC.
      • ThomasJ 3 months ago
        No wonder you took the identity TUGLAK. Bin Tuglak was utopian.

        I agree with your suggestion, well. most of it.
      • Objectiv ist 3 months ago
        Tuglack.. People like you are called extremists.
      • parvathi 3 months ago
        @Objectiv - We have values unlike in USA; therefore, it is better you keep out from our country's matters. Tugluck is absolutely right. Media is meant for educating people in the right way not in the wrong way; boring with the same news all the time, making mountain out of mole hill.
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