An independent press cannot be made to succumb before myopic opinions of certain individuals, a Delhi court said on Wednesday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra made the observation while dismissing a plea to prosecute an English daily for publishing news about people of a certain caste. The court said, “The complaint filed by an advocate lacked merits and it was nothing but an attempt to encroach upon the freedom of press. The job of editors cannot be turned into mere stenography writing; only euphonic reports suiting to individual needs”.
