The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any interim order lifting the ban on the BBC documentary, India's daughter , which contains an interview of the December 16 gangrape convict.
"It is not a matter for interim relief. So we cannot grant the same at this stage. We have called for the original record, which has been produced before this court by the concerned ministry. We will go through it and then take up the matter," said a Bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw.
The petitioners said that such a ban might result in more gags and that the video had anyway spread through the Internet with no law and order situation arising, so they could not see a point to its ban.
Counsel for the government said that permitting the video would mean giving the convict a platform to air his views which were only derogatory statements against the victim.
The court posted the case for hearing to May 27.
